Description:

This volume contains two classic science fiction stories from 1835: "The Moon Hoax" by Richard Adams Locke and "The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall" by Edgar Allan Poe. In the former, the readers of the NY "Sun" were held in thrall for five days by series of reports detailing the incredible discoveries being made on the moon by famed astronomer, Sir John Herschel. The latter, while written with tongue firmly in cheek, is the first attempt in literature to describe a space flight with scientific plausibility. Illustrated.