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Books for readers who loved the Moon orbit adventure and want more of Barbicane, Nicholl, and Ardan
Autour de la Lune (1870) completes the Moon voyage begun in De la Terre à la Lune — three men circling the Moon in their projectile and returning safely to Earth. These 8 books share its return-journey structure, its observations of a strange world from a vessel, and its comedy of obsessive men in enclosed spaces.
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Buy on AmazonDe la Terre à la Lune
by Jules Verne
The essential first part — the founding of the Gun Club, the construction of the Columbiad, and the launch; Autour de la Lune continues directly from the end of De la Terre
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Buy on AmazonL'Île mystérieuse
by Jules Verne
Verne's most complete novel — five castaways building a civilization while Captain Nemo aids them secretly; the terrestrial parallel to the Moon voyagers' exploration of the unknown
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The First Men in the Moon
by H.G. Wells
Wells's Moon voyage in response to Verne — two Englishmen find an entire Selenite civilization underground; the British scientific romance that takes Verne's trajectory into wonder
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Buy on Amazon2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke's Moon voyage that Verne's anticipates — the Discovery mission to Jupiter as the actual realization of Barbicane's Columbiad dream with the addition of HAL 9000
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Buy on AmazonThe Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
Bradbury's lyrical meditation on a world encountered from a spacecraft — the Martian surface seen by successive expeditions has the same quality of otherness as Verne's lunar observations
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Buy on AmazonRendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke
The mysterious vessel circled and explored — humanity investigating the alien spacecraft as Barbicane and his companions investigate the lunar surface; the same structure of encounter with the unknown from a vehicle
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Buy on AmazonVingt mille lieues sous les mers
by Jules Verne
The companion great Verne novel of 1870 — Captain Nemo's submarine as the ocean equivalent of the projectile; both are enclosed vessels allowing the observation of an otherwise inaccessible world
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Buy on AmazonContact
by Carl Sagan
Ellie Arroway's journey through the Machine — the scientist who makes contact with the unknown as the modern equivalent of Barbicane; both use scientific rigor to approach what has never been reached
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