`Micromégas` is a 1752 short story by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire. Along with his story `Plato`s Dream`, it is a seminal work in the genre of science fiction, and is a significant development in the history of literature. The tale recounts the visit to Earth of a being from a planet circling the star Sirius, and of his compa...
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(from the article `Voltaire`) ...in 1747. Ill and exhausted by his restless existence, he at last discovered the literary form that ideally fitted his lively and disillusioned ... Fontenelle was a close friend of Montesquieu and well known to Voltaire, who mocked him in his Micromégas (1752), a dissertation on the smallness of .....
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Voltaire's satirical, interplanetary romance in which a 20-mile-tall native of Sirius joins forces with a Saturnian 'dwarf,' a mere one mile in height, to explore the solar system. They discover that Mars has two moons – evidently a borrowing from Swift (see Swift, Jonathan and the moons of Ma...
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