Jules Verne (1828-1905) is one of the most recognizable names in Western literature, coming to be known as one of the Fathers of Science-Fiction. Verne wrote about air travel and space travel 50 years before either was possible. From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad—and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!