Velikii frantcuzskii pisatel i puteshestvennik Zhiul Vern sozdal dlia svoikh chitatelei mir s zakhvatyvaiushchimi prikliucheniiami i neveroiatnymi izobreteniiami. Ego knigi, polnye udivitelnykh puteshestvii i nauchnykh otkrytii, liubimy i vostrebovany vot uzhe mnogimi pokoleniiami chitatelei. V knigu voshli dva nauchno-fantasticheskikh romana o pervom unikalnom puteshestvii cheloveka na Lunu. Posle okonchaniia Grazhdanskoi voiny v SShA u predsedatelia "Pushechnogo kluba" Impi Barbikena rozhdaetsia smelaia i derznovennaia ideia â€" sozdat nevidannoi moshchnosti pushku, snariad kotoroi smog by doletet do poverkhnosti Luny. Riskovannyi proekt sobiraet vokrug sebia trekh otvazhnykh smelchakov. I vot uzhe reshitelnyi frantcuz Mishel Ardan, nevozmutimyi amerikanetc kapitan Nikol i sam Barbiken, chelovek s zheleznoi volei, letiat v puteshestvie, polnoe opasnostei i nepredskazuemykh sobytii.