The Meteor Hunt by Jules Verne,
translated and edited by Frederick Paul Walter and Walter James Miller

“With its stock comic and melodramatic characters, slangy dialogue, satiric jabs (knocking U.S. imperialism, Verne posits a 51-star flag), and supercilious authorial attitude, the yarn is easy to imagine as a Preston Sturges or Frank Capra movie, especially if the mildly archaic diction of this translation were retained. Darn good entertainment; excellently annotated, too.”—Booklist