Hviezdoveda
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In 1856, seven years before Jules Verne's debut, Gustav Reuss in Revuca completes the scientific-popularization work Stargazing, in which he sends his hero Krutohlav in a giant hot-air balloon from Muran straight to the moon. Part adventure story, part popularisation guide, Hviezdoveda is not only an original record of contemporary knowledge in astronomy, geography and physics, but above all a testimony to the unparalleled power of imagination, based on the folk tales and fairy tales that Gustav Reuss, his brother and father collected in the Gemer region, even one and a half centuries after its creation. This treasure, the first ever work in the genre of science fiction on the territory of Slovakia, is brought to the readers in the 21st century in the editorial and language editing of Lubica Schmarcova and with illustrations by Andrej Kolencik.
