And you can enjoy a little speculation about what those ETs are like when you
dip into an ancient classic, The Man in the Moone (Logaston Press,
Herefordshire, £8.95, ISBN 1 873827 64 4). This is a bishop’s tale:
Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford, published his story of a voyage to the Moon
in 1638, scorning the ideas of Copernicus.
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