The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures

✍ Scribed by Ashley, Mike; Brown, Eric (Editor)

• Book ID: 107290791
• Publisher: Robinson
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 341 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A hundred years after the death of Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction, a host of top SF authors pay homage to his genius with this anthology of superb new stories, taking as their inspiration just some of Verne's iconic ideas and characters. In this collection of extraordinary voyages are stories of intrigue and adventure set around the four corners of the globe, and even within it, recalling such works as [i]Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth[/i] and [i]Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea[/i] . .

[list][*]Ian Watson tells of a journey deep into the Earth's core, where Verne's adventurers do battle with occultist Nazis

[*]Adam Roberts takes us to latter-day California, where a descendant of Verne's Hector Servadac is preparing for the end of the world

[*]Molly Brown reveals how the Baltimore Gun Club plan to make the Moon habitable by seeding it with garbage

[*]Johan Heliot strips away the masks to reveal the real reason for Phileas Fogg's intrepid journey around the world

[*]Michael Mallory describes how Captain Nemo attempts to stop the unleashing of atomic power

[*]and more...[/list]