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Critics have noted how Voltaire's fable re-uses the trope of giants and midgets from Swift's Travels. What is not so often noticed is his major innovation of inverting the dominant 17th-century SF premise; instead of travellers from the Earth encountering aliens and quizzing them about their Christian-religious orthodox, he imagines aliens coming to Earth, the first such story.
Critics have noted how Voltaire's fable re-uses the trope of giants and midgets from Swift's Travels. What is not so often noticed is his major innovation of inverting the dominant 17th-century SF premise; instead of travellers from the Earth encountering aliens and quizzing them about their Christian-religious orthodox, he imagines aliens coming to Earth, the first such story.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Critics have noted how Voltaire's fable re-uses the trope of giants and midgets from Swift's Travels. What is not so often noticed is his major innovation of inverting the dominant 17th-century SF premise; instead of travellers from the Earth encountering aliens and quizzing them about their Christian-religious orthodox, he imagines aliens coming to Earth, the first such story.
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