Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space

Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne.
The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people did not realize at first what had happened, and considered the collision an earthquake.
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