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The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the
Solar System is an ambitious Vernian cosmic saga written between
1888 and 1896 by Georges Le Faure and Henri de Graffigny. Where
Verne had limited his hero Hector Servadac to traveling on a comet,
Le Faure and de Graffigny tell the detailed story of the
exploration of the Solar System -- and beyond. In this first
volume, the amazing Professor Mikhail Ossipoff of the Scientific
Institute of St. Petersburg launches a spaceship from a canon built
inside a volcano. The crew, consisting of Ossipoff, his daughter
Selena, her fiance Gontran de Flammermont, French polymath Alcide
Fricoulet and American tycoon Jonathan Farenheit, travel to the
Moon where they encounter an amazing ancient civilization. When
Selena is taken prisoner by the evil Fedor Sharp, who has stolen
Ossipoff's secrets and reached the Moon before they did, the heroes
pursue him in a jet-propelled craft to Venus, then in a
solar-powered ship to Mercury. After many adventures on the Inner
Planets, they embark on a comet and reach Mars, where new dangers
threaten... "The historical importance of The Extraordinary
Adventures of a Russian Scientist is derived from the fact that it
was a highly ambitious attempt to hybridize action-adventure
fiction and the popularization of science to produce a new kind of
science fiction, one that has much in common with hard science
fiction." Brian Stableford.
The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the
Solar System is an ambitious Vernian cosmic saga written between
1888 and 1896 by Georges Le Faure and Henri de Graffigny. Where
Verne had limited his hero Hector Servadac to traveling on a comet,
Le Faure and de Graffigny tell the detailed story of the
exploration of the Solar System -- and beyond. In this second
volume, Professor Ossipoff and his fearless crew, after their
harrowing adventures on Mars, pursue their rival Fedor Sharp
through the storms of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. Then,
chancing upon a mean of faster-than-light propulsion, after a tour
of Uranus and Neptune, they embark on the first-ever journey out of
the Solar System, to Alpha Centauri and beyond... Meanwhile, thanks
to Tuttle's Comet, the insidious Sharp manages to return to Earth,
where he plans to steal Ossipoff's discoveries... "The
Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist is the longest
scientific romance ever written, and it was not until the final
years of the 20th century that the genre produced a handful of
longer works. It is the first novel to attempt a tour of the entire
Solar System, and to venture outside by means of faster-than-light
travel." Brian Stableford
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