Swanson, 1976, "Lucian of Samosata, the Greco-Syrian satirist of the second century, appears today as an exemplar of the science-fiction artist. There is little, if any, need to argue that his mythopoeic Milesian Tales and his literary fantastic voyages and utopistic hyperbole comport with the genre of science fiction". Swanson, Roy Arthur (Nov 1976), "The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian's Philosophical Science Fiction", Science Fiction Studies, 3 (3): 227—39.
