Round the Moon is Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile and its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but luckily does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon. The three travelers undergo a series of adventures and misadventures during the rest of the journey. During the latter part of the voyage, it becomes apparent that the gravitational force of their earlier encounter with the asteroid has caused the projectile to deviate from its course.Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French writer. He was one of the first authors to write science fiction.  The action of J. Verne's novels, always very well designed, usually takes place in the second half of the 19th century. They are  exceptionally adventurous - "Captain Grant's Children" (1868), "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873), "The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain" (1878), etc., and science fiction - "From Earth to The Moon" (1865), "Twenty thousand leagues under the water" (1870), "Robur the Conqueror" (1886), etc. In addition to novels, he created many plays, short stories, autobiographical stories, poems, songs; scientific, artistic and literary works.
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