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Language. French. Genre. Science fiction. Published. 1752. Le Micromégas is a 1752 novella by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire. [1] Along with his story "Plato's Dream", it is an early example in the literary genre of science fiction and has its place in the development of the history of literature.
Jul 11, 2017 · This short work by Voltaire — which tells of a visit to Earth by Micromégas, an inhabitant of a distant planet which circles the star Sirius, and his companion hailing from Saturn — remains a seminal work of early science-fiction. The planet from which Micromégas has come is huge, almost 22 million times greater in circumference than that ...
Sep 28, 2009 · Voyage of an inhabitant of the Sirius star to the planet Saturn. On one of the planets that orbits the star named Sirius there lived aspirited young man, who I had the honor of meeting on the last voyagehe made to our little ant hill. He was called Micromegas[1], afitting name for anyone so great.
Aug 14, 2015 · In 1752, he penned Micromégas — a short story notable not only for being a seminal work of science fiction, but for addressing with astonishing prescience an equally astonishing array of issues enormously timely today: He envisions space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life two centuries before the word “astronaut” was ...
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Léger, fantaisiste, plein d'ironie, Micromégas est un méli-mélo où l'on trouve du fantastique dans la tradition de Rabelais, de Cyrano de Bergerac et de Swift, mais aussi l'écho des dernières avancées scientifiques, des règlements de compte, une méthode d'investigation, une critique des systèmes philosophiques traditionnels…
