The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures

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

• Book ID: 107291583
• Publisher: Robinson
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 326 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. В 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]