About the book: 1960 / Almost a century separates us from the times when Jules Verne, the great science fiction writer, poet of science and technology, wrote the first book in a series of novels -travel - “Five weeks in a hot air balloon.” Much has changed since then. And yet...Following in the footsteps of Jules Verne's heroes, travelers did not always repeat what they did. But they had the same goal: to search and find! Go where no one has ever been! Build machines that no one has ever built! And our book of science fiction essays about extraordinary journeys made in the second half of the twentieth century will tell you how this could happen..