Journey To The Sun - 9781612275178

In 1839, 25 years before Jules Verne, French botanist and geologist Pierre Boitard (1789-1859) published Journey to the Sun, the first story of adventure and scientific popularization for young people, depicting a voyage through the solar system, with the beings of each of the planets representing a different stage of Man's evolution. Two years earlier, Boitard had published Paris Before Humankind, well before, well before the emergence of palaeontology; it was the first Darwinian narrative, including pre-historical ape-men.Both of these ground-breaking novellas were at the time attempts to produce what would nowadays be called "hard science fiction" speculative fiction based on accurate scientific data.

• | Author: Pierre Boitard, Brian Stableford
• | Publisher: Hollywood Comics
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1612275176
• | ISBN-13: 9781612275178