A Baltimore gun club builds a giant cannon to fire a manned projectile at the moon. Verne's prophetic, tongue-in-cheek space adventure.
Books mentioned in From the Earth to the Moon (5)
The Plurality of Worlds by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle: “Somewhat later another Frenchman, named Fontenelle, wrote `The Plurality of Worlds,' a _chef-d'oeuvre_ of its time.”
Journeys in the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac: “At the same period Cyrano de Bergerac published that celebrated `Journeys in the Moon' which met with such success in France.”
The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin: “In 1649 a Frenchman, one Jean Baudoin, published a ‘Journey performed from the Earth to the Moon by Domingo Gonzalez,’ a Spanish adventurer.”
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall by Edgar Allan Poe: “a certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching himself in a balloon … reached the moon after a passage of nineteen hours. This journey, like all previous ones, was purely imaginary; still, it was the work of a popular American author—I mean Edgar Poe!”
The Moon Hoax by Richard Adams Locke: “related how Sir John Herschel, having been despatched to the Cape of Good Hope … This _brochure_, the work of an American named Locke, had a great sale.”