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A review by april_does_feral_sometimes
From the Earth to the Moon: Complete With 80 Original Illustrations by Jules Verne
3.0
‘From the Earth to the Moon’ is the foremost representative of a Jules Verne novel!
Jules Verne tries very hard to use the actual science facts known in his lifetime to solve speculative science-fiction problems in his novels. In this book, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ he tackles the tasks of getting a capsule to the moon from earth! The movies that have been made based on this book are truly fun, but the novel itself is written like it’s a work journal a team of engineers wrote about building an extra challenging, never-been-done-before-bridge across a large chasm. The result is more of an automotive-repair textbook than a science fiction novel.
Verne adds into his textbook-novel attractive characters to explain the science and to entertain the reader. Unfortunately, the story is primarily about the blueprints, math and engineering. The main characters are eccentrics and thus very funny, but the solving of the engineering challenges are what they talk about 99% of the time.
This edition has hand-drawn illustrations which I liked a lot. I believe it is two books in one volume. The two parts seem like they may not have been published in one volume originally.
Jules Verne tries very hard to use the actual science facts known in his lifetime to solve speculative science-fiction problems in his novels. In this book, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ he tackles the tasks of getting a capsule to the moon from earth! The movies that have been made based on this book are truly fun, but the novel itself is written like it’s a work journal a team of engineers wrote about building an extra challenging, never-been-done-before-bridge across a large chasm. The result is more of an automotive-repair textbook than a science fiction novel.
Verne adds into his textbook-novel attractive characters to explain the science and to entertain the reader. Unfortunately, the story is primarily about the blueprints, math and engineering. The main characters are eccentrics and thus very funny, but the solving of the engineering challenges are what they talk about 99% of the time.
This edition has hand-drawn illustrations which I liked a lot. I believe it is two books in one volume. The two parts seem like they may not have been published in one volume originally.