Moore, Daniel
Entry updated 29 October 2021. Tagged: Author.
(? -? ) US author whose Proto SF novel, An Account of Count d'Artois and His Friend's Passage to the Moon (1785) [for full title see Checklist below], in which two Frenchmen ascend in a Balloon to the Moon, by accident. As the count tells us, they find here a perfect society of Jews (see Religion) who give them lessons on how to create a Utopia (or heaven) on Earth. [JC]
Daniel Moore
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- An Account of Count d'Artois and His Friend's Passage to the Moon, in a Flying Machine, Called, an Air Balloon, which was Constructed in France, and from which Place they Ascended (Litchfield, Connecticut: Collier and Copp, 1785) [binding unknown/]
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