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 away by a comet contacting the Earth. The comet passes by various bodies in the Solar System before returning the travelers to the Earth. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that is carried away by the comet there remain a total of 36 people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people do not realize at first what has happened, and consider the collision an earthquake.
Adaptations (1)
Off on a Comet was adapted into a 1961 film.
Valley of the Dragons1961 · film · 82 min · dir. Edward Bernds · IMDb ↗IMDb4.9In 1881 Algeria, an American soldier and a French aristocrat are about to have a duel over a woman when a comet hurtling past the Earth draws them into its gravitational pull. The men find themselves transported to the moon, where they discover a prehistoric civilization inhabited by reptiles and humans.
