Title: La chasse au météore

Title: La chasse au météore Title Record # 837912
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1908-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: French

Note: Serialized in ''Le Journal'', no. 5635 (5 March 1908) - no. 5671 (10 April 1908). First book publication 30 April 1908. According to Brian Taves's review in vol. 40 #2 (Summer 1999), pp. 181-184 (http://jv.gilead.org.il/taves/Meteor.html), the novel was first written by Jules Verne in 1901 and rewritten shortly before his death. His son, Michel Verne, revised and expanded the novel (from 17 to 21 chapters) prior to publication.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1909^ⓘTranslated by Frederick Lawton This translation begins: There is no reason for hiding from the reader that the town in which this singular story commences is situated in Virginia, United States of America. With his permission, we will call this town Whaston, and we will place it in the east, on the right bank of the Potomac; but we deem it useless to specify the exact whereabouts of Whaston, which does not appear even on the best maps.	English	The Chase of the Golden Meteor
1958^ⓘTranslated by Gellu Naum	Romanian	Goana după meteor^?Goana dupa meteor
1965^ⓘTranslated by I. O. Evans This translation begins: The town in which this strange story begins is situated in Virginia, U.S.A.; it may be called Whaston, on the right bank of the river Potomac; it is useless to specify its exact whereabouts, for it does not appear even on the best maps.	English	The Hunt for the Meteor
1970	Italian	La caccia al meteorite
1983	German	Die Jagd auf den Meteor
2006	English	The Meteor Hunt

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
La Chasse au Meteore	1908-00-00	Jules Verne	J. Hetzel			364	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Chase of the Golden Meteor	1909-00-00	Jules Verne	Grant Richards			vi+ 292	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Goana după meteor^?Goana dupa meteor	1958-00-00	Jules Verne	Editura Tineretului				hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Goana după meteor^?Goana dupa meteor	1963-00-00	Jules Verne	Editura Tineretului ( Colecţia SF (1st series)^?Colectsia SF (1st series) Colectia SF (1st series) )			232	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Barbu Teodorescu
The Hunt for the Meteor	1965-00-00	Jules Verne	Arco Publishing (The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne)		15/-	191	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Hunt for the Meteor	1968-00-00	Jules Verne	Ace Books (The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne)	H-78	$0.60	189	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jerome Podwil , Ron Miller
La caccia al meteorite	1970-09-08	Jules Verne	Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Oscar #292)	9270	600 Lit	xx+ 268	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Karel Thole
Indiile negre / Goana după meteor^?Indiile negre / Goana dupa meteor	1979-00-00	Jules Verne	Ion Creangă^?Ion Creanga (Biblioteca Jules Verne #19)			302	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Jules-Descartes Férat
Kein Durcheinander / Die Jagd auf den Meteor	1983-00-00	Jules Verne	Neues Leben		M 8.40	230	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Val Munteanu
Kein Durcheinander / Die Jagd auf den Meteor	1984-00-00	Jules Verne	Neues Leben	6435077	M 8.40	232	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Val Munteanu
The Chase of the Golden Meteor	1998-00-00	Jules Verne	University of Nebraska Press (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)	0-8032-9619-3	$13.00	xii+ 292	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Meteor Hunt	2006-10-01	Jules Verne	University of Nebraska Press (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)	0-8032-4677-3	$29.95	272	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Meteor Hunt	2006-10-01	Jules Verne	Bison Books (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)	0-8032-9634-7	$15.95	272	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

Review [English] by P. Schuyler Miller (1969) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969
Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years (Pages 545 - 998)
Review [English] by Clinton Lawrence (1999) in Science Fiction Weekly, 25 Jan 1999
Review [English] by Paul Di Filippo (2007) in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2007