France is not a very fantastic country compared, for example, to America or England. Who, besides Jules Verne, can you remember among the French science fiction writers? Almost no one. Roni Sr. with his “Fight for Fire”, Maurice Renard, Gerard Klein... Who else? But there is a name in French science fiction that our domestic reader knows for sure - this is Francis Karsak. The novel "Robinsons of Space", translated and published in our country in the very early 1960s, immediately brought Karsak to one of the leading places in the rating of sympathy Russian readers. A universal catastrophe, a piece of the planet is torn away from the Earth, and the people living on it find themselves millions of kilometers from home, in a world that needs to be mastered and conquered. The novel “The Flight of the Earth” is the story of a man from the distant future who told people of the modern era about that , what kind of disaster will endanger the planet and how great-grandchildren, for the sake of saving humanity, will decide on a grandiose experiment - the “escape” of the Earth into the orbit of an alien sun.