Project Gutenberg 2006-11-08 Public domain in the USA. 86 Le Faure, Georges 1856 1953 Faure, Georges Le Graffigny, H. de (Henry) 1863 1934 Graffigny, Henri de Graffigny, Henry de Marquis, Raoul De Graffigny, H. (Henry) Flammarion, Camille 1842 1925 Flammarion, Nicolas Camille Filamaryon, Kamil Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe; I. La lune Produced by Chuck Greif, Mireille Harmelin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://dp.rastko.net (Produced from images of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe; I. La lune" by Le Faure and Graffigny is a scientific fiction novel written in the late 19th century. The book blends adventure with astronomical themes, following a Russian scientist as he navigates through celestial topics and discoveries. It explores the idea of space travel and challenges conventional beliefs about the moon and other celestial bodies. The opening of the narrative introduces us to Saint-Petersburg on a snowy evening, where a young girl named Séléna is anxiously waiting for a visit from her suitor, Gontran de Flammermont. Her father, Mickhaïl Ossipoff, is portrayed as a passionate scientist engrossed in his experiments, which lead to an explosion that shakes their home. This sets the stage for Séléna's declaration of love and her father's subsequent obsession with a groundbreaking discovery related to ballistics. The delightful tension between domestic life and scientific ambition presents a poignant backdrop for the impending adventures and discussions that are to unfold. The narrative draws readers into a world where scientific exploration intertwines with personal relationships, hinting at larger themes of discovery and the mysteries of the universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Science fiction Moon -- Fiction Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction Solar system -- Fiction PQ Text FR Science fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 857660 857680 2024-09-08T13:25:31.034433 2023-09-09T05:32:27.282432 text/html text/html 970072 2006-11-10T15:30:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 23937243 2006-11-12T03:10:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 24580473 2024-09-08T13:27:27.465372 application/epub+zip 24474836 2024-09-08T13:26:14.868238 application/epub+zip 396703 2024-09-08T13:25:34.556422 application/epub+zip 39185966 2024-09-08T13:27:55.204224 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 39045687 2024-09-08T13:26:39.380582 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 593941 2022-09-09T10:57:56.390800 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 770537 770313 2024-09-08T13:25:24.352492 2023-09-09T05:32:21.138357 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 751546 2006-11-12T03:09:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 276656 2006-11-12T03:10:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21454 2024-09-08T13:27:55.691193 application/rdf+xml 25768 2024-09-08T13:25:35.138411 image/jpeg 4941 2024-09-08T13:25:34.902409 image/jpeg 24791822 2024-09-08T13:25:32.459444 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia