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Collected here are six tales that span nearly two thousand years from a Roman citizen writing a satire of the historical literature of his time in 182 AD to Edgar Allan Poe exploring the idea of a scientific ascent to the moon in 1835 Humanity changed vastly across that time and yet the moon never lost its allure its promise of mystery and magic By the late nineteenth century it was clear that the moons surface was barren and a wave of moonbased stories inaugurated the expansion into space of fiction