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Old 07-24-2019, 12:57 AM   #11
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For anyone interested, there is an excellent extended article on “Proto-science fiction” in the Science Fiction Encyclopedia here

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/proto_sf

The same source also has an article concerning Lucian:

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lucian

Personally, I think that The True History is satire using the conventions of imaginative literature in the broad sense. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy describes the work as “a parody of the travellers’ tales that were already multitudinous in Lucian’s day.”

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