Johannes Kepler's "Somnium" is a Latin novella that describes a journey to the Moon. It is considered a foundational work of science fiction, notable for its scientific speculation and detailed astronomical descriptions.
Sources for Johannes Kepler — Somnium
Johannes Kepler — Somnium in First Science Fiction and Proto Science Fiction Stories
Held in the First Science Fiction and Proto Science Fiction Stories chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Lucian of Samosata — A True Story (175)
- Francis Bacon — The New Atlantis (1626)
- Francis Godwin — The Man in the Moone (1638)
- Cyrano de Bergerac — Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (1657)
- Cyrano de Bergerac — The States and Empires of the Sun (1662)
- Margaret Cavendish — The Blazing World (1666)
- Jonathan Swift — Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
- Ludvig Holberg — Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741)
- Mary Shelley — Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Mary Shelley — The Last Man (1826)
- Edwin A. Abbott — Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)
- Samuel Butler — Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872)
- Mark Twain — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — A Princess of Mars (1912)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
- Voltaire — Micromégas (1752)
- Jules Verne — Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
- Jules Verne — From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
- H. G. Wells — The Time Machine (1895)
- H. G. Wells — The War of the Worlds (1898)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1916)