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    Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne. It recounts the journey of several people carried...
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    Ranieri Catch Me If You Can (1959) Valley of the Dragons (1961) – Hector Servadac Zane Grey Theater TV (1961) Episode "The Release" Excellently cast...
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  • published in 2007. It is based on an earlier story by the author, "Hector Servadac, fils", which was part of The Mammoth Book of Jules Verne Adventures...
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  • romantic plot that includes Hector Servadac and Angelica. In a French colony of Northern Africa, Captain Hector Servadac works as a cartographer for the...
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    Chancellor 1875 1876 Michel Strogoff 1876 Michael Strogoff 1876 1877 Hector Servadac 1877 Off on a Comet 1877 1877 Les Indes noires 1877 The Child of the...
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    alternative history. An early example of catastrophic space travel is Hector Servadac (1877) by Jules Verne, where a piece of the Earth with several Earthlings...
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    some stories. These concepts are combined in Jules Verne's 1877 novel Hector Servadac (English title: Off on a Comet), where a cometary encounter with Earth...
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  • technical anticipation at the time. In the cometary wake of Jules Verne's Hector Servadac, Friedrich Wilhelm Mader offers German youth an interstellar voyage...
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  • Senator Is He Popenjoy? Jacint Verdaguer – L'Atlàntida Jules Verne Hector Servadac Les Indes noires Émile Zola – L'Assommoir Louisa May Alcott – Under...
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  • for a duel in 1881 Algiers, Irishman Michael Denning and Frenchman Hector Servadac, are swept from the face of the Earth by a passing comet and find themselves...
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  • Airship, based on Two Years' Vacation, and On the Comet, based on Hector Servadac. The main literary source material for Vynález zkázy was Verne's 1896...
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    Chancellor, 1875) Michael Strogoff (Michel Strogoff, 1876) Off on a Comet (Hector Servadac, 1877) The Child of the Cavern (Les Indes noires, 1877) Dick Sand,...
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  • subsequently immolates to destroy all life on Earth. Jules Verne's 1877 novel Hector Servadac describes a comet colliding with Earth, taking bits of land (and inhabitants)...
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  • Exhibition Na kometě (1970), an anti-war fantasy based on Verne's Hector Servadac He was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival...
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    An illustration to Jules Verne's novel Hector Servadac from 1877 shows Herschel observing the Halley's Comet in 1835 in Cape Town. Engraving by Charles...
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    Laplante (fr) to illustrate the 1877 first edition of Jules Verne's novel Hector Servadac (or Off on a Comet). Murray, Jennifer M. (2013). American Civil War:...
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