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Yeah, I really like it! Sadly, it actually doesn’t have a whole lot to do with my story. I’ll tie it in one day, my last story like this was a year & a half long. Aiming for two years this time!
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@myril wrote:Sounds like an interesting story, Kyle. 😎
Do you know, that Johannes Kepler (the 17th century scientist) wrote a fantasy, or should call it science fiction called Somnium (The Dream)? It’s about travel to the moon and how things, the universe would look like from there. He wrote it to illustrate and support the heliocentric model of Kopernikus. Interesting story. The protagonist learns from his mother, a wise woman (others would have called her a witch), after some travel on his own, that he is the son of the demon of Lavania, the demon of the moon. And he learns, that it is possible to travel to the moon. Although it takes some supernatural powers in this story to get there, Kepler got some things scientifically right, having already an idea that gravitation has to be overcome and that this would stress the body.
Anyway. Geeking out here 😆Great coincidence on the story title. I can’t resist adding that Kepler’s mother was actually arrested and charged with witchcraft because it was assumed she used spells to enable him to write the book. He did eventually manage to free her, though it took a lot of effort to make people understand he had only used imagination and mathematics.
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