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Un mundo desconocido. Dos años en la luna

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Facsímil de la primera y única edición en español, impresa en Barcelona en el año 1898. Se ha pensado que es Julio Verne el verdadero autor de este libro, oculto tras el seudónimo de Pierre De Selenes ( “piedra de la luna” ) y que por alguna misteriosa razón decidió no firmarlo con su nombre real.

En 1865 Barbicane, Ardan y Nicholl, los inolvidables personajes del libro 'De la Tierra a la Luna' escrito por Julio Verne consiguieron hacer volar la imaginación de nuestros bisabuelos. Con el tiempo los avances científicos nos mostraron un frío satélite incapaz de albergar vida alguna, relegando al olvido una segunda parte de la historia titulada 'Un mundo desconocido. Dos años en la Luna' que presentaba por primera vez a unos seres extraterrestres elevados espiritualmente más allá de lo humano.

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1896

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January 13, 2015
Starts out fairly well for the 1st 60 to 80 pages. However, nothing exciting really happens until the last 60 or 80 pages. In between, there's a lot of words spent describing a Lunar Utopia in which presumably folks read better than this fair-to-middlin' offering.

An Unknown World is of some interest historically:
- as a contemporary sequel to the exploits of Jules Verne's Gun Club members (especially those in From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon).
- because of Brian Stableford's footnotes putting the whole thing on a firmer footing for those unfamiliar with 19th Century science, literature, etc.
- last but not least, I think that the idea of signalling the 3 initials of the astronauts all the way from the Moon to Earth is the inspiration for the same thing happening in the 1950s film called From the Earth to the Moon starring Joseph Cotton.
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