Jules Verne ~7 hr read

The Baltimore Gun Club builds a colossal cannon to fire three men at the Moon, and this volume follows them all the way around it.

Jules Verne's 1865 classic (with its 1870 sequel 'Round the Moon') is a witty, science-minded cornerstone of the space story, complete with real orbital calculation. Prophetic, satirical, foundational. Read it for the lunar cannon-shot that helped invent science fiction, here paired with the voyage around the Moon itself.

In its time

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

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Émile Antoine Bayard