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Roux's Off on a Comet: Crew Discovers Wreckage on the Frozen Comet Surface
A group of bundled travelers on the frozen surface of the comet Gallia gather at night amid jagged ice formations and rocky outcrops. In the foreground, a man in a heavy coat raises his hand to his brow in astonishment as his companions look on. To the right, the shattered remains of a ship or structure jut from the ice, its ribs and spars silhouetted against a star-filled sky, evoking the eerie isolation of Verne's tale of survivors stranded on a rogue comet.
Category: Book Illustration
Publication: Off on a Comet (Hector Servadac) by Jules Verne
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Artist: George Roux
Publisher: H.G. Wells French Edition
Decade: 1890s
Country: France
Coolness: 6/10
The Martians have landed and no one is ready — witness the moment civilization's confident men became trembling ants before the cylinder!
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