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Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around... Read Full Overview

Nearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact in the vicinity of Gibraltar sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six unsuspecting... Read Full Overview

The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total... Read Full Overview

When a comet strikes, it breaks off a section of the Earth, sending it spinning into outer space - along with a group of survivors who were not left behind Can they survive the harsh conditions of their new, reduced world, and if not, how can they get home?

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Verne's collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched... Read Full Overview

Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne.The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around... Read Full Overview

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet.

H ctor Servadac es un joven de 30 a os, capit n del estado mayor. Se reta en duelo con el conde ruso de Timascheff al que aprecia pero con el que tiene diferencias irreconciliables. Para no decir realmente por qu se pelean - la mano de una bella viuda - fingen que han discutido... Read Full Overview

H ctor Servadac es un joven de 30 a os, capit n del estado mayor. Se reta en duelo con el conde ruso de Timascheff al que aprecia pero con el que tiene diferencias irreconciliables. Para no decir realmente por qu se pelean - la mano de una bella viuda - fingen que han discutido... Read Full Overview

Hector Servadac est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1877. Il s'agit d'un roman tout fait fantaisiste o l'auteur extrapole partir d'une hypoth se la rencontre de la Terre avec une com te, les cons quences la fois les plus inattendues et les plus rigoureusement... Read Full Overview

One of Jules Verne's strangest and most controversial novels, Off on a Comet tells the story of a small band of people on a tiny world torn from earth by a grazing comet and their struggles to survive in the wilderness of interplantary space. A strange mixture of dream-like fantasy... Read Full Overview