![]() ![]() Also, the term science wasn’t widely used until the eighteenth century (natural philosophy being used previously), so any label is retrogressive. This is what let Utopia down, in my opinion. My opinion will follow, but what all good stories need regardless of genre is a plot. That calls into question the very definition of the term, which is debate for someone or somewhere else. Many commentators have called it the first piece of true science fiction. You might be fussy and call it a novelette. This is a short story, not even a novella. So, in a book of 176 pages, The Man in the Moone can be found on 56 pages, most of which have footnotes. ![]() For example, he calls the birds pivotal to the plot Gansas, which I needed an explanation for. However, this version has not had its language modernised so I did need to refer to footnotes on occasion for clarity. I have read the story as was originally intended. In this case, the introduction, the section on Godwin and his contemporaries, note on the text, textural notes and appendices. As with my review of Utopia, and my intention with as many of the titles in my challenge as possible, I have ignored outer layers of the published text. ![]() I’ve read the 2009 Broadview Press edition edited by William Poole. It wasn’t published until 1638, 5 years after he’d died. The Man in the Moone or the Discovrse of a Voyage thither by Domingo Gonsales is the full title of a story written by the bishop Francis Godwin in the late 1620s. ![]()
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