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Brace yourself for an out-of-this-world adventure in this Jules Verne classic following a small group of survivors set adrift in space by a comet--now with an arresting new look

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

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

Brace yourself for an out-of-this-world adventure in this Jules Verne classic following a small group of survivors set adrift in space by a comet--now with an arresting new look

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

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?

When the comet Gallia impacts Earth, the results are catastrophic... but only for a given few. After the glancing blow, Earth continues in its stately course, but a few chunks of the planet's outer shell are taken up by the comet, along with several dozen people. Thus begins... Read Full Overview

En la costa de Algiers, el capit n franc s H ctor Servadac, su ordenanza Ben-Zuf y el suelo bajo sus pies son barridos de la faz de la Tierra tr s el paso de un cometa. El mundo a su alrededor r pidamente cambia y cuando la pareja comienza a explorar, descubren que junto con... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne (1828-1905) est un crivain fran ais, dont une grande partie de l'oeuvre est consacr e des romans d'aventures et de science-fiction (appel s du temps de Jules Verne romans d'anticipation) comme Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre (1864) et Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les... Read Full Overview

Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised.

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fictiongenre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)... Read Full Overview

Reproduktion des Originals von Jules Verne ber die "Reise" der Erde Richtung Sonne. Zweiter Band.