A Voyage in a Balloon

A gun club with nothing left to shoot at decides to fire a manned projectile at the moon, and the sequel follows the capsule the whole way there. Verne worked out the launch site, the escape velocity and the crew size decades before any space agency existed.

Jules Verne

The direct sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, picking up with the capsule already in flight and its three passengers circling a world nobody had seen up close. Half adventure, half thought experiment in orbital mechanics.

Jules Verne

A comet clips the Mediterranean and carries off a slice of the Earth, along with the people standing on it. What follows is a survival story played out on a runaway world with its own gravity, seasons and orbit.

Jules Verne

Verne answers his own balloon novels with a heavier than air flying machine and the ruthless inventor who built it. The argument between propeller and balloon that drives the plot was the real aviation debate of the 1880s.

Jules Verne

The late sequel to Robur the Conqueror, where the inventor returns with a machine that drives, sails, dives and flies. Darker and tighter than the original, and one of the last novels Verne finished.

Jules Verne