True Stories or
True Fictions (,
Alethe diegemata; ) is a parody of travel tales, by the
Greek-speaking Syrian author
Lucian of
Samosata, the earliest known fiction about travelling to
outer space,
alien life-forms and interplanetary warfare. Written in the 2nd century, the novel has been referred to as "the first known text that could be called
science fiction". The work was intended by Lucian as a satire against contemporary and ancient sources, which quote fantastic and mythical events as truth.