Weird. I didn't realize Poe had written science fiction. I'm not sure exactly what happened at the end. . .was the whole story (within the story) a hoax or not? It almost felt as though Poe got tired of writing this story and decided to cut it short without wasting the fragment. ( )

One of Poe's early science fiction stories, this tells the tale of Hans Pfall, who decides he has nothing to lose so why not travel to the moon in a hot air balloon? Fairly amusing, but it didn't really engage me that much. I probably would have enjoyed it more if it had been half the length. ( )