Jules Verne 3 hr 50 min read

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

This is Jules Verne's 1865 'De la terre à la lune,' the satirical, prophetic classic in which peacetime artillerymen aim their genius at the sky, complete with real orbital calculation. A cornerstone of science fiction. Read it for the foundational lunar cannon-shot in Verne's own language, witty and visionary.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 50 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).