A “milk” is harvested from this location in a story which recounts how this location used to be closer to the Earth before it was pushed away by the tides. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this location whose “distance” titles a story in the collection Cosmicomics. In a Jules Verne novel, characters attempt to use a “space gun” to land on this location.
ANSWER: Earth’s moon [accept luna, accept “The Distance of the Moon,” accept From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route: 97 hours, 20 minutes]
[10m] Cosmicomics is a collection by this author, who also wrote Invisible Cities. This Italian author unconventionally used the second person in the metafictional novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.
ANSWER: Italo Calvino
[10h] This French author described strapping bottles of dew to himself to reach the moon in his States and Empires of the Moon, where he is told by the Moon’s inhabitants that his famously large nose is a sign of distinction.
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac [or Cyrano de Bergerac]
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