Chasing shooting stars

Author: (French) Jules Verne
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Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This series is compiled based on Jules Verne's manuscripts held in the Jules Verne Library collection. As newly discovered social history, customs, and travelogue-style novels by Verne, they showcase the other side of the "master of science fiction" Verne's writing talent! Readers who have enjoyed Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea will surely be captivated by the author's rich imagination. Let us join the "Newly Discovered Verne" series to "explore the unknown and discover the extraordinary"! The story told in this novel is set in a small town in Virginia, USA, where two amateur astronomers simultaneously discover a fireball. As they engage in open and hidden competition over the discovery, further astronomical observations reveal that this fireball is pure gold... Thus, the subtle desires lurking deep within human nature begin to fester, and the grotesque performances under the sun seem only natural. In the face of human greed, how far can this fireball still travel innocently? And to what extent can social morality be maintained? Although this is a science fiction novel, it touches upon the good and evil of human nature at the social level, making it thought-provoking. At the same time, behind the noisy and absurd farce, a classic 19th-century tragic love story unfolds—one that arises without any pretense but whose outcome depends on the fireball performing a miracle...