A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In A Voyage to the Moon, Cyrano de Bergerac launches a bold, mischievous tale that blends adventure with razor-edged satire. The narrator, a quick-witted skeptic with an appetite for daring theories, becomes obsessed with the possibility of life beyond Earth and devises a series of improbable schemes to reach the Moon. When his experiments finally hurl him into the heavens, he arrives in a world that is unmistakably alien yet uncomfortably familiar: a society with its own customs, hierarchies, and assumptions about what is natural, moral, and true. As an outsider, he is forced to justify his origin, his beliefs, and even his humanity before curious (and often hostile) lunar authorities and philosophers. Each encounter becomes a contest of ideas, where accepted wisdom is flipped on its head and earthly dogmas about religion, science, politics, and social status are tested under an unforgiving new logic. By turns comic, confrontational, and imaginative, this early classic invites listeners to question certainty itself and to wonder how strange our own world might look from far away.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:22:06) Chapter 01

(00:24:45) Chapter 02

(00:32:18) Chapter 03

(00:37:15) Chapter 04

(00:43:12) Chapter 05

(00:56:38) Chapter 06

(01:02:15) Chapter 07

(01:08:41) Chapter 08

(01:27:31) Chapter 09

(01:41:22) Chapter 10

(01:55:48) Chapter 11

(02:16:32) Chapter 12

(02:22:30) Chapter 13

(02:36:00) Chapter 14

(02:55:15) Chapter 15

(03:05:12) Chapter 16

(03:21:43) Chapter 17

(03:34:51) Chapter 18

(03:42:11) Chapter 19

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