La Verne, Jules 1828-1905 creator Roux, George 1853-1929 text utu 2025 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La chasse au météore" by Jules Verne is a novel written in 1901 and published posthumously in 1908. The story follows two rival amateur astronomers in a small American town who both claim discovery of a new meteor. When the meteor proves to be made of solid gold, their competition intensifies. Meanwhile, an eccentric inventor develops a device capable of controlling where the precious celestial object will fall. More social satire than science fiction, the novel lampoons human greed, obsession, and vanity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chasse_au_m%C3%A9t%C3%A9ore Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_of_the_Golden_Meteor Release date is 2025-08-24 Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) Originally published: Paris: Hetzel, 1908 Science fiction Fantasy fiction Satire Political fiction Greed -- Fiction Meteors -- Fiction Amateur astronomy -- Fiction National characteristics, American -- Fiction PQ Paris: Hetzel, 1908 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6517517v/f13.double https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76724 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6517517v/f13.double https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76724 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134757.0 76724