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Off on a Comet
| Alternate Title: | Hector Servadac: or, The Career of a Comet |
| Author: | Jules Verne |
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Baen, 2013 Ace Books, 1957 Original English publication, 1878 Original French publication, 1877 |
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Ron Miller Science Fiction Classics: Book 44 |
| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Mundane SF |
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Synopsis
The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 around Gibraltar. On the territory that is carried away by the comet there remain a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people do not realize at first what has happened, and consider the collision an earthquake. During a new collision of the comet with Earth two years later, the castaways return to earth in a balloon they put together.
This novel has has also been split into two parts: To the Sun? & Off on a Comet!
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