Before he wrote Candide, Voltaire helped pioneer science fiction
Before he wrote the famous eighteenth-century novel Candide, Voltaire wrote non-fiction books about Newtonian physics, and fiction about giant aliens visiting Earth from Sirius and Saturn. Cory Gross from Voyages Extraordinares explains. Voltaire is a crucial link in the great chain of authors — especially French ones — who forged the Scientific Romance. Born François-Marie…
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