Jules Verne's novel, "From the Earth to the Moon," describes an American post-Civil War effort to build an enormous cannon and launch three men to the moon. This work is notable for its detailed scientific speculation and its influence on early science fiction.
Sources for Jules Verne — From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne — From the Earth to the Moon in First Science Fiction and Proto Science Fiction Stories
Held in the First Science Fiction and Proto Science Fiction Stories chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Lucian of Samosata — A True Story (175)
- Francis Bacon — The New Atlantis (1626)
- Johannes Kepler — Somnium (1634)
- Francis Godwin — The Man in the Moone (1638)
- Cyrano de Bergerac — Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (1657)
- Cyrano de Bergerac — The States and Empires of the Sun (1662)
- Margaret Cavendish — The Blazing World (1666)
- Jonathan Swift — Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
- Ludvig Holberg — Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741)
- Mary Shelley — Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Mary Shelley — The Last Man (1826)
- Edwin A. Abbott — Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)
- Samuel Butler — Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872)
- Mark Twain — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — A Princess of Mars (1912)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
- Voltaire — Micromégas (1752)
- Jules Verne — Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
- H. G. Wells — The Time Machine (1895)
- H. G. Wells — The War of the Worlds (1898)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1916)