Jules Verne 3 hr 13 min read

The North Polar Practical Association launches a document across two worlds, as the Gun Club's mathematician Maston helps set in motion a wild scheme to tilt the Earth on its axis.

Jules Verne's 1889 novel (here in the original French, 'Sans dessus dessous'), a sequel to his Moon books, imagines a plan to alter Earth's axis. Visionary, satirical, prophetic. Read it for Verne's audacious tale of the Gun Club's most reckless engineering dream, science-fiction on a planetary scale.

In its time

Published in 1889, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

3 hr 13 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).