On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:46:31 -0400, Tony Nance <
tnusenet17@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 3/29/24 12:56 AM, Titus G wrote:
On 21/03/24 09:33, Tony Nance wrote:
Last week I managed to visit a couple of used book stores,
ostensibly because my wife wanted the next books in two long-running
series she reads, but of course, while I was there...
Anyhow, part of the haul included a nice MMPB version of Verne's
Journey to the Center of the Earth, which I picked up because it said
"complete and unabridged" on the cover, while the one version I own
is neither.
In my tweens and early teens, this was one of my very favorite
books, and I enjoyed the 1959 movie several times whenever it came
around on TV.
Perhaps you would enjoy Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea, an
imitation of Verne in style and content by Adam Roberts?
Maybe! I do want to read something by him sometime. I'd probably start
with something that wasn't a pastiche or homage or whatever word I'm
looking for.
Some of the books may be hard to get through. One of the "extras" on
the /20,000 Leagues Under the Sea/ DVD had the scriptwriters whining
about how ... sparse ... the plot was compared with the endless
amounts of oceanography (as understood in the 19th century). I have
heard similar reports about other books.
Of course, /Moby Dick/ contains a /lot/ of cetalogy, so this isn't
exactly unique to Verne.
This ties into the assertion that science fiction was originally written/tolerated because it taught /science/ while at least
pretending to tell a story.
And to my knowledge, nobody has done Journey to the Centre of the Earth
with Werewolves, or the like. (Yet?)
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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