Viaje a la Luna. Hercule Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac. Francia 1619 - 1655 Fue un poeta, dramaturgo y pensador frances, coetaneo de Boileau y de Moliere. Como intelectual, fue considerado libertino, por su actitud irrespetuosa hacia las instituciones religiosas y seculares. Tambien se le tiene por uno de los precursores de la ciencia ficcion. En la actualidad, es especialmente conocido por la obra de teatro Cyrano de Bergerac de Edmond Rostand."

Hercule-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 - 1655) was a French dramatist and duelist. In fictional works about his life he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to see. Cyrano de Bergerac's works L'Autre Monde: ou les Etats et Empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) (published posthumously, 1657) and Les Etats et Empires du Soleil (The States and Empires of the Sun) (1662) are classics of early modern science fiction. In the former, Cyrano travels to the moon using rockets powered by firecrackers and meets the...

A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the seventeenth century. Today he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most famous drama Cyrano de Bergerac which, although it includes elements of his life, also contains invention and myth. Since the 1970s there has been a resurgence in the study of Cyrano, demonstrated in the abundance of theses, essays, articles and biographies published in France and elsewhere in recent decades.

A Voyage to the Moon is the first of three satirical novels written by Cyrano de Bergerac, that are considered among the first Science Fiction stories. Arthur C Clark credited this book with being the first example of a rocket-powered space flight, and for inventing the ramjet. It was published after the author's death, in 1657.

In The Other World, French dramatist Cyrano de Bergerac tells of his fictional attempts to reach a lunar civilization that sees the Earth as its own moon, and the curious beings he find when he finally reaches there. This satirical novel, poking fun at the social and political mores of the time, is one of the earliest science fiction stories - including the first envisioning of a rocket-powered space flight, all the way back in 1657 - and inspired early science fiction including Jonathan Swift's story Gulliver's Travels. An innovative and influential work.