From The Earth To The Moon & Around The Moon
Books like From The Earth To The Moon & Around The Moon
30 science fiction books to read after From The Earth To The Moon & Around The Moon, by Verne, Jules, the closest match first.
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1. From The Earth To The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Of all the works of translated science fiction, there can be few rivals for the mass and continuing popularity of Jules Verne's extraordinary voyages. Between 1863 and his death in...
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2. The Mysterious Island
by Verne, Jules
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Five Union prisoners escaping in a balloon from the siege of Richmond set down on the shores of an uncharted island.
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3. Five Weeks In A Balloon
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne's first novel: a British doctor and his companions cross Africa by balloon, in an adventure that began the Voyages Extraordinaires.
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4. The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras follows an English captain set on reaching the North Pole, through ice, mutiny and the wonders of the Arctic.
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5. In Search Of The Castaways; Or The Children Of Captain Grant
by Verne, Jules
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The story begins in July of 1864. While on boardthe Duncan, a yacht, Lord Edward Glenarvan, LadyHelena Glenarvan, and Major McNabbs, LordGlenarvan's cousin, find a bottle and break it opento...
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6. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Verne, Jules
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The classic example.
When Hugo Gernsback wanted to define "scientifiction" in the very first issue of Amazing, he called it the "Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells type of story". It puts...
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7. Round The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne's Round the Moon is the sequel to From the Earth to the Moon: three men in a projectile loop the moon and try to return to earth.
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8. A Floating City
by Verne, Jules
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A Floating City is Jules Verne's story of an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic and a man's tangled romance and quarrel on board.
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9. The Gods Themselves (1973)
by Asimov, Isaac
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In the 2070s, a scientist realises that a sample of tungsten has turned into plutonium that cannot exist in our universe. His discovery leads to the Electron Pump, which gives...
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10. Ice
by Shane Johnson
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Like Stephen Baxter, Johnson imagines that the Apollo programme continued. In this case, Apollo 19 arrives at a point on the Moon where ice has been detected, but when it...
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11. The First Men In The Moon
by Wells, H. G.
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First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...
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12. Luna: New Moon
by Ian Mcdonald
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Ian McDonald's diptych, Luna: New Moon and its forthcoming sequel, Luna: Wolf Moon, is the first full-blooded description of a lunar colony that science fiction has seen for decades. It's...
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13. A Fall Of Moondust
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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This is one of those short, intense novels that encapsulates all the dangers of life on the space frontier in one gripping episode. In this case, a cruise ship on...
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14. Steel Beach
by John Varley
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Alien invaders have obliterated human life on Earth, and the survivors have scattered through the rest of the Solar System. The most heavily populated colony is Luna, the Steel Beach...
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15. The Ceres Solution
by Bob Shaw
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There has been a theory put about that the Moon's gravitational influence played a part in the development of intelligence on Earth; here, Bob Shaw turns that idea on its...
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16. Moon Is Hell, The & Green World, The
by John W. Campbell Jr.
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Before he became the most influential editor in the history of science fiction, Campbell was an author of remarkable, scientifically savvy stories that clearly presaged the golden age he helped...
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17. The Moon Maid
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Omnibus fixup of: 1. "Moon Maid" (1923) 2. "The Moon Men" (1925) 3. "The Red Hawk" (1925) Originally all serialized in *Argosy All-Story Weekly*
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18. Moonfall
by Mcdevitt, Jack
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One of the things we see time and again on this list is that the Moon is very often presented as a threat, whether it's the threat of invasion in...
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19. Trouble With Tycho
by Clifford D. Simak
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Like Rogue Moon, which came out at around the same time, and presaging Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, A Space Odyssey in odd ways, this is a novel about the Moon...
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20. Griffin's Egg
by Swanwick, Michael
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If many of the stories we've included on this list treat the Moon as a threat, there are equally those, like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Steel Beach,...
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21. L'autre Monde
by Cyrano De Bergerac
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We said earlier that Godwin's The Man in the Moone was one of the most influential works in the history of science fiction, and this is one of the earliest...
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22. Lunar Justice
by Charles L. Harness
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If you want to see how much sf from the last quarter of the 20th century ignored the technical realities of the Moon, look no further than this sometimes absurd...
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23. Double Planet/reunion
by John Gribbin
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John Gribbin and Marcus Chown are two highly respected science writers who occasionally turn their talents, and their expertise, to science fiction. So you know that what you are going...
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24. The Moonbase Saga
by Ben Bova
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For the last 30 years, Ben Bova has been composing an intricately interconnected sequence of novels that explore the human colonisation of the entire solar system. Inevitably, the Moon plays...
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25. Farside Cannon
by Roger Macbride Allen
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This is yet another novel with the Moon as threat, and another which plays with the idea of the dark side of the Moon. In this instance a superweapon is...
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26. The Man In The Moone
by Francis Godwin
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Godwin was Bishop of Hereford, and this extraordinary story was discovered among his papers after his death. Read today it is hard to realise what an amazing work it was,...
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27. The Consolidator Or, Memoirs Of Sundry Transactions From The World In The Moon
by Daniel Defoe
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Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year among many others, is not generally recognised for his science fiction, but in fact he wrote one of the...
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28. Somnium
by Johannes Kepler
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Following the Copernican Revolution, Kepler was probably the most important astronomer in the story of our understanding of the Solar System. He worked with Tycho Brahe and became court astronomer...
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29. Rogue Moon
by Algis Budrys
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A novel that makes the reader confront death.
A massive alien structure is discovered on the moon. In order to explore it, volunteers are scanned in a matter transmitter on Earth and their doppelgangers are projected onto the...
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30. To The Moon
by Heinlein, Robert A.
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An award winning novel about a colony that rebels against the Lunar Authority that controls it.
Science fiction-roman.
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