When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.
From the Phantom of the Louvre collection What is a routine study for his parents leaves a much deeper impression on a 12-year old. A lifetime of loss, disappointment and betrayal is balanced by recollections of a single act of bravery and sacrifice. ~ 4,100 words.
The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets,discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne's imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor.
Set between 2347 and 2350, a man born from Aphadus departs to New Olympia to meet the woman of his dreams on the UHN Opet. It is set during the events of the Gabatrix series. Please read the disclaimers before reading the story. This story is part of the Tales of Heroes series which includes Gabatrix but Gabatrix readers are not required to read it. Story contains: Love, Romance, Human/Anthro Relations, Pregnant, Impregnate, Superfetation, History, Science Fiction, Magic, and more.