![]() ![]() The confines of its interior have led to them becoming smaller the wild, over-spilling hydroponics garden has provided them with food and shelter. They may have forgotten the fact and purpose of their voyage, but the ship itself has shaped them. Although Verne got a few of his calculations wrong (the length of the cannon’s barrel would have to have been much longer), most of what he describes seems remarkably prescient when you consider it was written a century before the first real moon landings.Īs members of a tribe of primitive people undertake a quest through an overgrown jungle, it slowly becomes apparent that they are aboard a huge spaceship, and the descendants of its original crew. ![]() Published in 1865, this novel was one of the first to take a serious stab at describing a space vessel and its means of propulsion (earlier attempts involving balloons and geese notwithstanding). ![]() In the aftermath of the US civil war, members of the Baltimore Gun Club construct a cannon capable of launching three men to the moon. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne Taking off … a coloured engraving from a 19th-century edition of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon. ![]()
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