Off on a Comet [CD-ROM]

Jules Verne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 1999

Jules Verne (1828-1905) is best known for his science fiction stories, at the time called "tales of imagination", even though he also wrote several historical novels.

As one of the first science fiction writers, his novels show the basics of good science fiction - good plot, good characterization, sound science, and good projections of scientific trends.

His ability to project the future of science was remarkable. Among his projections were the modern submarine, television, guided missles, satellites, and the airplane. His accuracy was not only in the invention but in the uses to which they were put.

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Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Publisher

This book is in Electronic Paperback Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2 and MacIntosh and Linux with Windows Emulation.

Includes Quiet Vision's Dynamic Index. the abilty to build a index for any set of characters or words.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 553 pages
• Publisher: Quiet Vision Publishing (November 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576461866
• ISBN-13: 978-1576461860
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,619,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Flawed Gem, Nearly Unknown But Worth The Read, April 5, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Off on a Comet: A Journey Through Planetary Space (Translation of Part 2 of Hester Servadas) (Hardcover)

I became interested in Off On A Comet through the old Classics Comics version, and I was able to track it down once in the late 1970's; this book is exceedingly rare. It concerns the travels of a French foreign legionnaire, his sidekick, and various others carried off on a comet which sideswipes the earth in the 1800's. This "comet" is a small, planetiod-like world with atmosphere, land, and ocean. The journey is utterly unbelievable in the light of present knowledge, but Verne is as scientifically correct relative to the knowledge of his day as he could be. Before the travelers are redeposited on the earth in another grazing collision, the comet's eccentric orbit carries them near Venus and Mars, causing them to suffer through terrible extremes of climate. Verne delights in the ability of human ingenuity to overdome obstacles, conflicts, and deprivation as they explore and edure their temporary home. The flights of imagination involved are remarkable and the characterizations are good. I was, however, surprised at the vicious anti-Semitism evident in the characters and the narrative. This will be an enormous problem for many readers, and is a major flaw in an otherwise superb work

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You need to first read part one, "To the Sun?", November 12, 1997

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Dirk Nomad "MrChris" (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Off on a Comet: A Journey Through Planetary Space (Translation of Part 2 of Hester Servadas) (Hardcover)

As with another reviewer, nostalgic recollection of the great Classics Illustrated Comic version of Off on a Comet prompted me to get the original from the library. Alas, Off on a Comet begins at a point near the end of the Classics Comics plot. Turns out all the good parts are in part one of Hector Servadac, called To the Sun. The library found me a volume called "The Space Novels of Jules Verne" (Dover publications, 1960) which contains both To the Sun? and Off on a Comet. Sometimes these are called Hector Servadac: Part One and Hector Servadac: Part Two, respectively.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Endless imagination, July 1, 2009

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Glenn Leary (Concord, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space (mobi) (Kindle Edition)

Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne. Published by MobileReference (mobi).

This is a story of Hector Servadac and his friends that found themselves riding on a comet which has just avoided a collision with earth but left a little scratch and took a piece of land along.