Jules Verne ~7 hr read

When the Gun Club of Baltimore, idle after the war, resolves to fire a manned projectile at the Moon, President Barbicane sets out to build the greatest cannon the world has ever seen.

Jules Verne's 1865 classic (this volume joins 'From the Earth to the Moon' and 'Round the Moon') is a cornerstone of science fiction. Witty, visionary, prophetic. Read it for the immortal tale of the giant space-gun and its three voyagers, Verne's brilliant and eerily accurate dream of the first flight to the Moon.

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).