From the Earth to the Moon

“Nothing to do! nothing to look forward to!” cries a Gun Club member, warming his wooden legs by the fire. In postwar Baltimore, peace has left even James T. Maston—whose head is fitted with a metal plate—longing for the thunder of a cannon.

After the American Civil War, the Gun Club’s battle-scarred artillerymen find their colossal guns silent and their inventive talents without a target. Then their passion for projectiles takes aim at a venture beyond any battlefield: a cannon powerful enough to send three men toward the Moon. But turning a grand artillery dream into a survivable journey demands more than audacity—and the Gun Club has never been shy about testing its inventions. Can its boldest shot carry its passengers safely into the heavens?

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