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{{work}}
{{Infobox book
| title =
| original title = Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα
| image = William Strang spider battle in 1894 True History.jpg
| caption = Colossal lunar spiders spin a web in the air between the Moon and the Morning Star.
| author = Lucian of Samosata
| central theme =
| elevator pitch =
| genre = Satire, Science fiction
| publication date = 2nd century CE
| source page exists =
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
}}
A group of adventurers sail from Greece to the Atlantic Ocean and get shot up to the moon by a giant water spout. When they arrive, they quickly get caught up in the war between the moon and Mars over the colonization of Venus.
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The book can be found online: [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl2/wl211.htm here] or [http://lucianofsamosata.info/TheTrueHistory.html here].
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{{tropelist}}
* [[Seventh
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: All the strange and far-off peoples the Greek adventurers meet speak Greek -- even the people of the moon.
* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: The Moon, albeit filled with all sorts of wacky monsters, is otherwise earth-like, but it gets even more weird when it turns out there is also civilization (and people, and trees) on the Sun.
* [[Ancient Greece]]: Or, more accurately, hellenic Greece.
* [[Based
* [[Boldly Coming]]: Some of the narrator's traveling companions have sex with tree-women on a remote island, and end up stuck to them.
* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: The king of the Moon rides on a vulture-horse.
* [[It Runs
* [[Level Ate]]: The sailors visit an island with rivers of wine, and an island made entirely out of cheese.
* [[Mister Seahorse]]: The lunar people are all men, so this trope naturally appears. The sons grow inside the calves of the men.
* [[Mix
* [[One
* [[Take That]]: Against [[
* [[Tall Tale]]: The book is a big [[Trope Maker]] for the literary tall tale and had a huge influence on later works in that genre.
* [[To Be Continued]]: The ending. It seems that Lucian never actually wrote a continuation (and probably never intended to).
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:
[[Category:True History]]
[[Category:Literature]]
[[Category:Greek Literature]]
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