In Amilec (1753), Charles-Francois Tiphaigne de la Roche conceived
the concept of journeys through the Solar System. His extrapolation
of the manner in which human seeds are used to populate other
planets may seem primitive, but it is a fascinating prediction of
what will eventually become cosmology and embriology. In 1760,
Tiphaigne sent his characters to explore the secret land of
Giphantie located deep in Africa, where a race of secret supermen
live in majestic isolation watching a medium remarkably similar to
television. Finally, in 1761, in The Empire of the Zaziris,
Tiphaigne predicted future tales of secret invasions by imagining
that mysterious beings, descendents of the sylphs and djinns of
legends, live hidden among us, secretly controlling the destiny of
Humankind. A proto-scientist, physician and contemporary of
Voltaire, Tiphaigne de la Roche penned three fantastic tales of
Swiftian satire that are also ground-breaking, foundation texts of
French science fiction.
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