"From the Earth to the Moon" is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon."Around the Moon" is the sequel, which continues the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel.