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Micromégas
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One of the first known Science Fiction stories, released in 1752. The only known surviving example that's older is Lucian's True History.Voltaire's Micromégas tells the story of a philosopher, Micromégas, who is exiled from his home planet and visits first Saturn, then Earth. | |
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Aliens Speaking English | |
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Aliens Speaking English: Micromegas and his Saturnian companion have no problems talking to humans when they first meet them. They first learn to speak French by listening in on them. | |
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Impossibly Graceful Giant | |
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Impossibly Graceful Giant: Despite (or maybe because of their size), the aliens are not spotted when they visit earth, so they seem to cause little distruction. | |
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Puny Earthlings | |
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Puny Earthlings: The narrator often mentions in passing how large and long-lived the aliens are. | |
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Turtle Island | |
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Turtle Island: When Micromegas picks up the human ship on his finger, the humans think they ran aground on a rock. | |
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Humans Are Flawed | |
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Humans Are Flawed: But the other aliens are just as dissatisfied with their own flaws as we are with ours. | |
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Two of Your Earth Minutes | |
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Two of Your Earth Minutes: Saturnians live 500 revolutions around the sun, which, as the author notes, translates to about 15,000 years. Given that Saturn needs 29.457 years for one revolution around the sun, this would make exactly 14728.5 years. | |
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness | |
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness: Micromegas speaks about God and studied at some Jesuit colleges on this planet, but it's never explained how Christianity came to be on Earth and on Sirius without the two planets ever interacting before the story. | |
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Bizarre Alien Senses | |
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Bizarre Alien Senses: The Saturnians have 72 senses, the Siriusians have almost 1000. | |
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Higher-Tech Species | |
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Higher-Tech Species: The Siriusians have figured out interstellar space travel without using any technology. | |
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Loads and Loads of Races | |
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Loads and Loads of Races: While only Siriusians, Saturnians and humans appear, Micromegas often mentions how many different peoples and races on different planets he has visited. | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Averted. The Saturnian is repeatedly called a dwarf because he is much smaller than the Siriusian Micromegas, but he is still 6,000 feet tall and fits none of the usual dwarven tropes. | |
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Batman Can Breathe in Space | |
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Batman Can Breathe in Space: When Micromegas travels from planet to planet by jumping, he doesn't seem to have any problems with breathing. | |
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Portmantitle | |
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Portmantitle: Also a Protagonist Title and One-Word Title, as the footnote says: | |
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Ear Trumpet | |
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Ear Trumpet: Micromegas makes one to communicate with what he sees as insects: | |
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Got the Whole World in My Hand | |
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Got the Whole World in My Hand: Apparently, Micromegas had encountered beings big enough to do that literally. | |
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Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel | |
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Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel: Without any aid of technology as it seems. | |
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All Planets Are Earth-Like | |
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All Planets Are Earth-Like: While the other planets are not exactly earth-like and the peoples living there are long-lived giants, they all are similar enough that everybody is able to survive on other planets without a space suit and talk to the local people. | |
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No Intelligent Life Here | |
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No Intelligent Life Here: Micromegas and his Saturnian companion debate whether or not Earth could possibly have intelligent life. Before they discover a boat full of philosophers, they consider it doubtful. | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Shaped Like Itself: "Nature is like nature. Why look for comparisons?". | |
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Mistook the Dominant Lifeform | |
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Mistook the Dominant Lifeform: At first, the aliens think whales are not only the dominant, but the only lifeform on earth because everything else is to small for them to see. | |
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First Contact | |
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First Contact: The Ur-Example. Micromegas meets Saturnians for the first time, and he and his Saturnian companion meet humans for the first time. | |
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Humans Are Insects | |
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Humans Are Insects: The Saturnian repeatedly calls the humans "insects" because of their small size. | |
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Protagonist Title | |
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Protagonist Title: Also a One-Word Title and Portmantitle. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Also a Protagonist Title and Portmantitle. | |
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Named After Their Planet | |
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Named After Their Planet: Saturnians are from Saturn. | |
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Our Giants Are Bigger | |
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Our Giants Are Bigger: Saturnians are 6,000 feet tall, Siriusians measure 120,000 feet. | |
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Little People | |
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Little People: What the Saturnians are to the Siriusians. | |
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Lilliputians | |
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Lilliputians: What the humans are to the Saturnians and Siriusians. Together, the three races speculate there may be even smaller races. | |
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Human Aliens | |
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Human Aliens: The Saturnians and Siriusians are giants, but otherwise, they seem to resemble humans. At least, they for sure have hands and fingers like us and are at least Humanoid Aliens. | |
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Superior Species | |
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Superior Species: Played with. The Siriusians are more sophisticated and long-lived than the Saturnians, who in turn are more long-lived and sophisticated than the earthlings, but there is always a race that knows more and lives longer, and none of them are perfectly happy with their lives. | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Siriusians are able to travel through interstellar space by hopping on comets and planets. | |
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Ear Trumpet / int_af283fca | |
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18th Century Literature / int_af283fca | |
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Got the Whole World in My Hand / int_af283fca | |
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Puny Earthlings / int_af283fca | |
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Shaped Like Itself / int_af283fca | |
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Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel / int_af283fca | |
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Strolling on Jupiter / int_af283fca |
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