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Old 09-01-2021, 01:29 AM   #40
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(7) Autour de la lune (Around The Moon, 1870)

This is a continuation of From the Earth to the Moon, starting right where the previous novel finishes. In fact, we only consider them as two different novels because they were originally published that way, but it would make sense to think of them as a single novel in two volumes, and sometimes it's published that way.[...]
I did read the two as a single book (using the version from here prepared by HarryT), but I still found the divide between the two parts quite stark. While I enjoyed the first, with the humour helping to break up more geeky parts, I found this second part quite hard work. As you suggest, it interesting from the historical Sci-Fi perspective, but (for me) that was about all.
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