Chapter 38

In these various _brochures_ the aim is always satirical; the theme being a description of Lunarian customs as compared with ours. In none is there any effort at _plausibility_ in the details of the voyage itself. The writers seem, in each instance, to be utterly uninformed in respect to astronomy. In “Hans Pfaall” the design is original, inasmuch as regards an attempt at _verisimilitude,_ in the application of scientific principles (so far as the whimsical nature of the su…