Note: - This excerpt is from an English translation of Lucian's 2nd century book known as True History or True Story. The original publication date and translator of this excerpt are undocumented. - J. O. Bailey, in his Pilgrims Through Space and Time, notes "classic literature offers no voyages to the planets until Lucian of Samosata in the second century A.D. wrote two stories of trips to the moon, ... Icaromenippus ... and True History." - An English translation by Francis Hickes was privately published as Lucian's True History in London in 1894. Hickes' translation was also published in the UK in 1899 by William Blackwood as Lucian's Wonderland, and in 1902 by A. H. Bullen as Lucian's True History.