Jules Verne
Off on a Comet: Original Text
Paperback
(Independently published June 17, 2020)
One of Jules Verne’s strangest and most controversial novels, Off on a Comet tells the story of a small band of people on a tiny world torn from earth by a grazing comet and their struggles to survive in the wilderness of interplantary space. A strange mixture of dream-like fantasy and hard science."Nothing, sir, can induce me to surrender my claim.""I am sorry, count, but in such a matter your views cannot modify mine.""But allow me to point out that my seniority unquestionably gives me a prior right.""Mere seniority, I assert, in an affair of this kind, cannot possibly entitle you to any prior claim whatever.""Then, captain, no alternative is left but for me to compel you to yield at the sword's point.""As you please, count; but neither sword nor pistol can force me to forego my pretensions. Here is my card.""And mine."This rapid altercation was thus brought to an end by the formal interchange of the names of the disputants.
- ISBN
- / 9798649756266
- Pages
- 254
- Weight
- 15.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.6
in.