Jules Verne 4 hr 10 min read

The Baltimore Gun Club builds a colossal cannon to fire three men at the Moon, Verne's founding space-shot, in Portuguese.

This is Jules Verne's 1865 'From the Earth to the Moon,' the satirical, science-minded classic in which peacetime artillerymen aim their genius at the sky. A cornerstone of the space story, witty and prophetic. Read it for the foundational lunar cannon-shot that helped invent science fiction's dream of leaving Earth.

In its time

Published in 1865, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

4 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).