From the Earth to the MoonOne of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon! |
Contents
The Romance of the Moon | |
The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States | |
The Hymn of the CannonBall | |
History of the Cannon | |
A New Star Round the Moon | |
Preliminary Chapter Recapitulating the First Part of This Work and Serving as a Preface to the Second | |
From Twenty Minutes Past Ten to FortySeven Minutes Past Ten P M | |
The First Half Hour | |
Their Place of Shelter | |
A Little Algebra | |
The Cold of Space | |
Question and Answer | |
The Question of the Powders | |
One Enemy V TwentyFive Millions of Friends | |
Florida and Texas | |
Urbi et Orbi | |
Stones Hill | |
Pickaxe and Trowel | |
The Fete of the Casting XVI The Columbiad | |
A Telegraphic Dispatch | |
The Passenger of the Atlanta | |
A Monster Meeting | |
Attack and Riposte | |
How A Frenchman Manages An Affair | |
The New Citizen of the United States | |
The ProjectileVehicle | |
The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains | |
Final Details | |
Fire | |
Foul Weather | |
A Moment of Intoxication | |
At SeventyEight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues | |
The Consequences of A Deviation | |
The Observers of the Moon | |
Fancy and Reality | |
Orographic Details | |
Lunar Landscapes | |
The Night of Three Hundred and FiftyFour Hours and A Half | |
Hyperbola or Parabola | |
The Southern Hemisphere | |
Tycho | |
Grave Questions | |
A Struggle Against the Impossible | |
The Soundings of the Susquehanna | |
J T Maston Recalled | |
Recovered From the | |
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