- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Ace Books. (1957)
- ASIN: B000GM79PG
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A Flawed Gem, Nearly Unknown But Worth The Read, April 5 1997
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Off on a Comet: A Journey Through Planetary Space (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?", Nov 12 1997
By Dirk Nomad "MrChris" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Off on a Comet: A Journey Through Planetary Space (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.
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Endless imagination, July 1 2009
By Glenn Leary - Published on Amazon.com
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.
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