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From the Earth to the Moon

Name: From the Earth to the Moon
Author: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780553214208

Jules Verne

First published 1865

7.6

Score out of 10114 ratingsConfidence 44%: this much of the score is the readers’ own

#130 of 180 in Adventure ahead of 28% of the category

Part of a seriesVoyages ExtraordinairesVolume 4 of 54

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Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” mixes satire of gun-mad enthusiasts with a serious plan for reaching the Moon. The Baltimore Gun Club, idle now that the American Civil War is over, decides to fire a manned projectile at it, and readers enjoy checking how much the author got right a century before real spaceflight. The weight of theory and calculation makes it feel, to some, less like a novel.

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From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people – the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet – in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon. There are two modern unabridged English translations by Walter James Miller (1978) and Frederick Paul Walter (2010).

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The sources average 7.4 across 114 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.