One of Jules Verne’s strangest and most controversial novels, Off on a Comet tells the story of a small band of people on a tiny world torn from earth by a grazing comet and their struggles to survive in the wilderness of interplantary space. A strange mixture of dream-like fantasy and hard science.
'Nothing, sir, can induce me to surrender my claim.' 'I am sorry, count, but in such a matter your views cannot modify mine.' 'But allow me to point out that my seniority unquestionably gives me a prior right.'
