id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4095 History of science fiction - Wikipedia .html text/html 11919 1058 65 Typical science fiction themes and topoi in True History include travel to outer space, encounter with alien life-forms (including the experience of a first encounter event), interplanetary warfare and planetary imperialism, motif of giganticism, creatures as products of human technology, worlds working by a set of alternative physical laws, and an explicit desire of the protagonist for exploration and adventure.[6] In witnessing one interplanetary battle between the People of the Moon and the People of the Sun as the fight for the right to colonize the Morning Star, Lucian describes giant space spiders who were "appointed to spin a web in the air between the Moon and the Morning Star, which was done in an instant, and made a plain campaign upon which the foot forces were planted..." L. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4095.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4095.txt