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Poe Fact #11: Science Fiction Before It Was Cool

Poe was dreaming of lunar travel before NASA existed. In "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall", he sent a man to the moon in a balloon... because the 1800s were wild.

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April 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
patrickzircher.bsky.social
Latest read (audio), Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall (1835) and Thou Art the Man (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe; novella about Hans Pfall who, along with a mother cat & her kittens, makes a balloon trip to the moon; and a short story of a corpse returning from the grave to accuse his murderer.
July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
jcabadvidal.bsky.social
Comparto unas reflexiones en torno a Edgar Allan Poe y la ciencia ficción a propósito de uno de sus relatos, «The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall» (La incomparable aventura de un tal Hans Pfaall).
Muy feliz semana.
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Edgar Allan Poe y la ciencia ficción. «La incomparable aventura de un tal Hans Pfaall»
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August 3, 2026 at 7:19 AM
alt64.bsky.social
Hoy, 19 de enero, es el aniversario del nacimiento de Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Escenarios apocalípticos (La conversación de Eiros y Charmion, 1839), viajes en el tiempo (Mellonta Tauta, 1849), viajes espaciales (Hans Pfaall, 1835).

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January 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
'I discovered, to my infinite surprise, that she had taken the opportunity of my indisposition to bring into light a litter of three little kittens.'

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (Poe 1835), where a man sets off from Rotterdam to the Moon with a cat.

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'Hans Phaall in the cabin' by Julian Portch (engraving by George Pike Nicholls) From Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour. Second Series of “Readable Books” 1853 A black-and-sepia image of a satisfied looking Dutch man smoking a long pipe in the cabin of his balloon. There are barrels, a trunk, books, and different kinda of scientific instruments. A shirt and socks hang from a clothesline. A cat with tiny kittens reposes on the bed.
January 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
deraltepoet.bsky.social
Aber auch die Protagonisten Jules Vernes waren nicht die ersten die ihren Heimatplaneten verließen. Der Schriftsteller Edgar Allan Poe schickte bereits im Jahre 1835 in einem unvergleichlichen Abenteuer einen gewissen Hans Pfaall mit einem Ballon zum Mond: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzXu...
Edgar Allan Poe - Das unvergleichliche Abenteuer eines gewissen Hans Pfaall
Dies, meine sehr verehrten Freunde, ist meine 673ste Lesung und meine 75ste Lesung einer Erzählung nach Motiven meines verblichenen Selbst.
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April 12, 2024 at 6:18 AM
finnfolklorist.bsky.social
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger as "Hans Phaall -- A Tale", intended by Poe to be a hoax.

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A round-faced man in a hot air balloon holding an envelope floats above amazed, smoke-blowing people below, near a castle. The mood is whimsical.
April 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
seamusaloysius.bsky.social
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
wood engraving by American-German artist Fritz #Eichenberg (1901-1990) for Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1944.
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This wood engraving is an original illustration by artist Fritz Eichenberg for Edgar Allan Poe's 1835 story, "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall". The artwork depicts the protagonist Hans Pfaall hovering in a hot-air balloon and dropping a letter to a startled crowd in Rotterdam. It was featured in the 1944 edition of Tales of Edgar Allan Poe published by Random House.
September 1, 2026 at 12:37 PM
rottenartist.bsky.social
It's late. It's snowing. I'm tired from walking in the snow (which I enjoy). I'm wrapped up in a blanket on the couch feeling sleepies. I'm going to power through talking about "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall” because I don't want to keep putting it off. 🧵
Over image of The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall with surreal artwork by Odilon Redon, French painter, showing a lighter than air balloon that is also a giant eye.
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
blueflamemagick.bsky.social
Seven of Cups (The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hand Pfaall) - Edgar Allan Poe Tarot

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A man rides a hot air balloon. Hanging from the edge are six chalices filled with items from Poe stories. The man holds a chalice with the moon in it
July 21, 2026 at 4:41 AM
frecklered.bsky.social
In todays reading of "31 days of Poe"
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
seamusaloysius.bsky.social
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall wood engraving by American-German artist Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) for Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1944.
This image is a wood engraving by Fritz Eichenberg, illustrating Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall".
September 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
rottenartist.bsky.social
Poe makes a huge deal about how much he intended Hans Pfaall to have /verisimilitude/, meaning that the story would be believable because it was based in real facts of actual sciences of ballooning, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and engineering. 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
rottenartist.bsky.social
In a later journal profile of Locke written by Poe, Poe says that he discussed the similarities of their two stories with the author directly. Poe states that he believes Locke's claim that he was ignorant of Hans Pfaall when writing the Moon Hoax. 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
myleslobdell.bsky.social
Heh. Yeah. Still waiting for the Allamistakeo cameo, or astronaut Hans Pfaall!
October 13, 2023 at 8:19 PM
rottenartist.bsky.social
If you want to read the story, here is the final version (Poe added in some personal notes at the end which will make sense later): www.eapoe.org//works/tales...
He also changed the spelling of Pfaall a bunch of times. The earliest was "Phaall." 🧵
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Tales - The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (Text-04b)
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, by Edgar Allan Poe
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December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
esseasterisco.acme.it
Il racconto del numero 278 di Delos Science Fiction
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, 1835. Traduzione di Decio Cinti. di Edgar Allan Poe
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July 26, 2026 at 11:45 AM
rottenartist.bsky.social
Poe says that he had planned to write another installment of his story to describe what Hans saw on the moon and to eventually return him to the earth, but because of Locke's "Moon Hoax" Poe abandoned the idea due to the stories being too similar. So Hans Pfaall remains "the man in the moon". 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
rottenartist.bsky.social
It works better in Haans Pfaall and The Balloon Hoax and The Maelstrom. The proto-science-fiction stories do well with the analytical descriptions for realism.
April 30, 2026 at 1:27 PM
rottenartist.bsky.social
The core plot of the story comes from the packet of papers: the journal of one Hans Pfaall detailing his adventure piloting a balloon to the moon. 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
rottenartist.bsky.social
Ughhh. I wanna post a long thread about The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, buuuut, I'm on a cleaning binge to finally file away a pile of bills and receipts, soooo... I'm doing that instead.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
jrbee.bsky.social
I sorta failed upwards on my hist sci-fi #ReadingChallenge.
I tried to read Poe’s balloon hoax, thinking it would be along the lines of his Hans Pfaall - to the moon in a balloon. It was not.
So I tried Verne’s
jrbee.bsky.social Jo Bee, Fantasy 🪶 Lover of 🐝🐝🐝 @jrbee.bsky.social · Jun 10
ok folks, does someone want to pick a number between one and 11 so I can pick my next read from my reading challenge?
August 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
rottenartist.bsky.social
Ok it's WAYYY past my intended bed time. I'll continue talking about Hans Pfaall (aka Phaall) soon when I discuss Poe's "Great Balloon Hoax," published a few years later as his attempt to show that anything Locke could do, Poe could do better. /🧵
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December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
rottenartist.bsky.social
LITERARY LEGACY: Poe's innovation in using serious science research to push the plot conceit forward into speculation marks Hans Pfaall as one of the first modern science fiction stories; a proto science fiction story before the modern genre existed. 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
rottenartist.bsky.social
Poe admitted though Locke's articles were the more effective hoax compared to his own Hans Pfaall story. Poe said that his mistakes were to publish in a literary journal as opposed to a newspaper; and to include comedic elements rather than staying staunchly serious in the presentation. 🧵
December 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM