Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• xi • Reaching for the Moon: An Introduction • [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 3 • from The Man in the Moone, or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales the Speedy Messenger • short fiction by Francis Godwin
• 41 • from The Discovery of a New World, ... with a Discourse Concerning the Possibility of a Passage Thither • short fiction by John Wilkins
• 59 • from The Comical History of the States and Empires of the World of the Moon • [Les états et empires de la Lune et du Soleil] • short fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac
• 103 • from A Voyage to Cacklogallinia • short story by Captain Samuel Brunt
• 126 • from The Life and Astonishing Transactions of John Daniel ... • short fiction by Ralph Morris
• 146 • A Journey Lately Performed Through the Air, in an Aerostatic Globe ... to the Newly Discovered Planet, Georgium Sidus • short story by Monsieur Vivenair (variant of A Journey Lately Performed Through the Air, in an Aerostatic Globe, Commonly Called an Air Baloon, from This Terraquaeous Globe to the Newly Discovered Planet, Georgium Sidus 1784) [as by Vivenair]
• 162 • Hans Phaall—A Tale • (1835) • novella by Edgar Allan Poe
• 190 • from Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel ... at the Cape of Good Hope • short fiction by Richard Adams Locke
• 217 • The Great Steam-Duck • (1841) • short story by unknown [as by A Member of the L.L.B.B.]