'Tom Sawyer Abroad' (1894) turns the trio (from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) into early astronauts--they call themselves "erronorts"--in a science fiction adventure loosely based on Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon ."
--Keith Neilson's afterword to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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