When it became known that the earth was only one of a family of planets circling the sun, the question arose: was there life on other planets? Many later speculated about this. In his Micromegas (1752), the French writer Voltaire brought to earth an eight-mile-high visitor from Sirus and a slightly smaller native of Saturn. Because of their size, these beings found it hard to decide whether there was intelligent life on earth.
L. Sprague de Camp, 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972
L. Sprague de Camp, 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972
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