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Beschreibung
A new, annotated edition of Jules Verne’s classic, which considers the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific as well as humanistic angles.

In an age when the idea of a “planet B” seems tempting, this edition of Jules Verne’s classic From the Earth to the Moon (1865) offers a complete and unabridged translation into English alongside extensive annotations and essays from contributors that span disciplines. It uses the prescient novel as a launching pad to consider the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific, humanistic, social, legal, and ethical angles.

Jules Verne is often considered a founder of the science fiction genre and a technological prophet who anticipated many modern-day technologies—including a moonshot launching from Florida with a trio of astronauts almost exactly a century before it happened. Verne didn’t just dream up cool gadgets: He innovatively combined the scientific and the literary to write his scientific romances. He also thought deeply about the relationship between the technoscientific and the human at a time when the former was transforming human life on an unprecedented scale. Following in his footsteps, this annotated new edition bridges STEM and the humanities and sheds new light on this underappreciated classic by an iconic author.

Essays by Samit Basu, Jordan Bimm, Erika Nesvold, Adam Oyebanji, Malka Older, Adam Roberts, and Asif Siddiqi.
A new, annotated edition of Jules Verne’s classic, which considers the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific as well as humanistic angles.

In an age when the idea of a “planet B” seems tempting, this edition of Jules Verne’s classic From the Earth to the Moon (1865) offers a complete and unabridged translation into English alongside extensive annotations and essays from contributors that span disciplines. It uses the prescient novel as a launching pad to consider the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific, humanistic, social, legal, and ethical angles.

Jules Verne is often considered a founder of the science fiction genre and a technological prophet who anticipated many modern-day technologies—including a moonshot launching from Florida with a trio of astronauts almost exactly a century before it happened. Verne didn’t just dream up cool gadgets: He innovatively combined the scientific and the literary to write his scientific romances. He also thought deeply about the relationship between the technoscientific and the human at a time when the former was transforming human life on an unprecedented scale. Following in his footsteps, this annotated new edition bridges STEM and the humanities and sheds new light on this underappreciated classic by an iconic author.

Essays by Samit Basu, Jordan Bimm, Erika Nesvold, Adam Oyebanji, Malka Older, Adam Roberts, and Asif Siddiqi.
Über den Autor
Jules Verne; edited by Anastasia Klimchynskaya; translated by Walter James Miller
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Introduction
Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Jules Verne and His Contexts
Anastasia Klimchynskaya
From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne, translated by Walter Miller and annotated for our spacefaring age
Essays
Elitist Populism, Rationalism without Reasons, and Other Contradictions
Malka Older
Les Fusillades Extraordinaires: Verne’s Big Guns
Adam Roberts
Jules Verne and the Soviet Cosmic Imagination
Asif Siddiqi
From San Antonio to the Seine: American Space Medicine in Paris, 1962
Jordan Bimm
Why Go to the Moon? The Costs and Benefits of Space Exploration
Erika Nesvold
From the Earth to the Moon: Money, Law, and Power in the Race to Exploit Resources
Adam Obeyanji
Whose Moon Is It Anyway?
Samit Basu
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262553865
ISBN-10: 0262553864
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Klimchynskaya, Anastasia
Verne, Jules
Redaktion: Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Übersetzung: Walter James Miller
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 165 x 228 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Anastasia Klimchynskaya (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2026
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
Artikel-ID: 136157027