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    Off on a Comet
    Off on a Comet
    Off on a Comet
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    Off on a Comet

    Written by Jules Verne

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form a mini-society and cope with the hostile environment of the comet (mostly the cold). The size of the 'comet' is about 2300 kilometers in diameter - far larger than any comet or asteroid that actually exists. (Summary by Wikipedia)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Jules Verne

    Jules Verne (1828-1905) used a combination of scientific facts and his imagination to take readers on extraordinary imaginative journeys to fantastic places. In such books as Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon, and Journey to the Center of the Earth, he predicted many technological advances of the twentieth century, including the invention of the automobile, telephone, and nuclear submarines, as well as atomic power and travel to the moon by rocket.

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      Entertaining as a adventure and survival story, but the ending is a flop and Verne's generalizations and slights against various nationalities are grating and offensive. Also the lack of a admirable central hero imparts little investment by the reader. The amalgamation of world view that Verne portrays renders his philosophical musings confusing and arbitrary, then his science is so outdated as to be useless for education and only serve as an amusing look at what a novice once perceived as the order of things and to slow down the plot.