Stories about Aliens

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During dinner, hanque and I got to talking about when the first story about space aliens was written. We were thinking some time in the 19th century, but we were quite far off.

Read about the earliest recorded pioneer of science fiction here:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/Lucian.html

I am amused to imagine a bunch of Romans lying on couches eating grapes and reading about Lucian's mushroom-stalk men ...

This website also had some interesting info on another science fiction author, Johannes Kepler.

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/K/KeplerJ.html