The Absurd 2nd Century Space Opera You'll Never Read

what was the first time travel story ?

Wait a second, so some ancient Greek guy created his own One Piece two thousand years ago?

So Feitan from H×H is based on the Sun King? I mean, his finishing move is recreating a sun 🤔

My dude wrote a Rick and Morty episode 2k years ago ✨👌

Wow, mpreg *and* vore? He truly was ahead of his time.

It is felt like anachronism brought by some time traveler.

"They meet other sea-men who were swallowed too"






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After Taco Bell it feels like a never ending belly war
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i was told i would never read it. so i read it.

what a guy

You could actually argue that Greek literature had sci fi themes as far back as Homer in the 8th century BCE, since the Iliad describes the god Hephaestus as being attended by golden automatons, and the Odyssey describes the Phaeacians as having advanced ships as fast as a falcon with no rudders or pilots, “[for] the ships themselves understand what it is that we are thinking about and want; they know all the cities and countries in the whole world, and can traverse the sea just as well even when it is covered with mist and cloud, so that there is no danger of being wrecked or coming to any harm.”

Sounds like Dune, he wrote it all first.

"I'll tell you that story in my NEXT book!"
>doesn't write the next book
lol, what an asshole. Lucian should be canonized as some kind of patron saint of trolls and shitposting.

More of a Fantasy than Sci-fi, I guess

i wanna frickin make a movie of this!!!

This needs to be a movie. It would feel like a fever dream

lucian was a helluva shitposter, huh lmao

I get the feeling the mushrooms he ad for dinner one day were the wrong kind or the right kind depending how you look at it

"You'll Never Read"? Why not? I read it like 30 years ago.

“you’ll never read” as my first reaction upon finishing the video wasn’t to go find the book and read it.

…on that note, what translation did you use? none of the ones i can find match the quotes you’ve put up

Hey, streaming platforms, where´s my adaptation of this masterpiece?

He wrote a Final Fantasy plot about 2000 years early.

Owlett Son of Fairweather was either the name of a politician Lucian didn’t like or the name of his pet cat

This has shades of Mark Twain, Forest Gump, and that story Bugs Bunny was telling his nephew where he was just about to crash but ran out of gas . . . .

The original Noland the Liar 😂

Wow!! Thanks 😃

This would be an awesome video game lol

So when is this becoming a Netflix show?😂😂

Bros making an ancient star wars story and somehow its so fascinating

This isnt sci-fi 🤦

Sounds more coherent than the bible

True history is neither science nor fiction. It's a satire of a hero epic

How about the ancient japanese story of the Bamboo Cutter, in which a couple finds a girl within a bamboo forest that is said to come from the moon.

It might be one of the prototypical sci-fi stories from Japan.

This needs to be James Cameron's next trilogy. 😄

Damn. I would really like to know about the reproductive ways of the people from the moon.

thank goodness for Lucian. His work is fantastic!!! 😊regardless.

The part that fascinates me is that they had the concept of planetary bodies as land masses that could support life (nevermind the sun). How long was that the case?

this concept of space has to be turned into a game or somethin

Oh man I want like an A24 The Green Knight-esque movie adaptation of this so bad. Honestly I wanna make it.

It's like the history of Scientology

The way he pronounced Dionysus makes me want to kill spmeobe

so... this is the true Star Trek pilot episode

The story of lovers transformed into intertwined trees goes 'way back, well into the creaky IndoEuropean past. I encountered a version of it in the edges of the Taklamakan desert of far western China. I have often wondered if the high culture of the good old days we barely remember came out of central Asia, and when it collapsed the pieces went everywhere. I know there is commonality between really old world cultures and those of preColombian America, myths, dances, swastikas and such. Since 1945 it has almost been impermissable to speak of such things.