A Voyage to the Moon,often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649.

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The author mentions Cyrano de Bergerac in order to show that imagination is the mother of invention.

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Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

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