The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures: Return to the Center of the Earth and Other Extraordinary Voyages, New Tales by the Heirs of Jules Verne

The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures: Return to the Center of the Earth and Other Extraordinary Voyages, New Tales by the Heirs of Jules Verne

Language: English

Pages: 464

ISBN: 0786714956

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Jules Verne, one of the founding fathers of science fiction, was the author of such thrilling and perennial favorites as Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, as well as more than sixty other novels of adventure and exploration. One hundred years after his death, this magnificent new collection celebrates Verne's amazing vision. A host of today's top science fiction authors pay homage to Verne's genius with a series of stories inspired by his groundbreaking imagination and original characters. In this anthology are extraordinary voyages of discovery and adventure from the four corners of the globe, and even within it. Following the tradition of Verne's original tales, Ian Watson tells of a journey deep into the center of the Earth, where Verne himself does battle with occultist Nazis, and Adam Roberts takes us to latter-day California, where a descendant of Verne's character Hector Servadac is preparing for the end of the world as we know it. These and many more compelling adventures add up to an anthology that will introduce a new generation to the wonder of Jules Verne and delight readers already familiar with the master.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

began in 1908 and had been going on ever since. Joe Smith rose and crossed the room to a small Sheraton bureau, from which he withdrew a sheath of documents. He carried them back to the fire and laid his cargo upon the table. "The original manuscript of Six Weeks in a Balloon, sir, the first typescript, and the second script which included the inserted fictional chapters. I discovered these among my master's papers shortly after his death." I picked up the hand-written manuscript and turned a

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on. "The next day, sure enough) the man arrives at the same spot and this time he has a camera crew with him plus his assistant editor. The boy is there as well, sitting on the grass at the far side of the lake looking nervous as hell. "The man shouts for the boy to come over and he gets the camera crew pointing in the right direction, film running. The boy starts towards them and . . . he wades out into the water. The journalist shouts for him to stop, tells him to go back and try it again.

which insists it must be fiction. And that, sir, is my tragedy." One Hundred and Thirty Fourth Day. Seven Million, Four Hundred and Seventy Seven Thousand Leagues. The air will be thin and bracing; it will be like a mountain-top on Earth. I must trust that the vegetable and animal life - whose treks and seasonal cycles have been observed, as colour washes, from Earth - provide me with provision compatible with my digestion. I have brought thermometers, barometers, aneroids and hypsometers with

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