In the canon
From the Earth to the Moon
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1865
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 180
Bored American gunmakers after the Civil War build a nine hundred foot cannon in Florida to fire a manned shell at the moon. The shot goes off, misses, and leaves the three passengers circling it as a satellite.
It was a company of Exterminating Angels, at bottom the best fellows in the world.
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