From the Earth to the Moon stories of Baron Munchausen and Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1889 Verne wrote a second sequel to the novel, "The Purchase of the North Pole", which has the Gun Club members (led by J. T. Maston) plan to use the "Columbiad" to alter the tilt of the earth to enable the mineral wealth of the Arctic region to be put within reach of exploitation. In March 1953, the Gilberton Company published a comic-book adaptation of "From the Earth to the Moon" as issue No. 105 in its Classics Illustrated series. An unidentified scriptwriter combined Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon"
The Chase of the Golden Meteor The Chase of the Golden Meteor The Chase of the Golden Meteor () is a novel by Jules Verne. It was one of the last novels written by the prolific French hard science fiction pioneer. The book, however, is seen as less an early example of hard science fiction than a social satire lampooning greed, monomania and vanity. Verne first wrote "La Chasse au météore" in 1901 and then rewrote it before his death, but it was only published in 1908, three years after the author's death, one of seven such posthumous novels. It concerns the rivalry between two amateur