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| 715.1 | fun | FLASH1::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason. | Wed Nov 09 1988 16:41 | 18 |
| Re .0 (Jim):
I dunno about a "favorite," but certainly one I remember with some
fondness id _Hector Servadac_, subtitled "Off on a Comet." The
basic idea is that a comet clips the Earth so that a small chunk
of Africa (including the Rock of Gibralter) is carried into space.
This includes a number of people; these folk (who survive because
the comet has sufficient mass and atmosdphere) are given a tour
of the Solar System.
Technologically, the transfer mechanism was nonsense when Verne
wrote it. But so was his Moon Gun in _From the Earth to the Moon_.
The book's fun. Ansd if you had an aide nasmed Ben Zoof ....
There's a lot of turn-of-the-Century-era Sense of Wonder in this
romp.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 715.2 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | BMT::BOWERS | Count Zero Interrupt | Wed Nov 09 1988 16:43 | 1 |
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| 715.3 | Village in the Treetops | LEDS::BUSCH | Dave Busch at NKS1-2 | Wed Nov 09 1988 17:30 | 5 |
| I read "Village in the Treetops" (a poor translation of "The Flying Village", or
smomething like that) quite a while back. Concerned an adventure in Africa. I
don't remember the details but it wasn't bad as I recall.
Dave
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| 715.4 | Hooray for Captain Nemo | CXCAD::WILLIAMS | | Thu Nov 10 1988 09:18 | 3 |
| "The Mysterious Island"
sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
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| 715.5 | All of them ! | SHIRE::SPECHTER | Geneva, the land of eternal rain... | Tue Nov 15 1988 04:59 | 7 |
| We had to read Jules Verne in school and I remember being fascinated
by them. I would recomend all of them for very enjoyable reading.
They are all very well written, some SF and others "just" fiction
- but wow what an imagination !
The end of the Moon Gun (can't remember the correct title) is very
clever..
Enjoy
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| 715.6 | Tsiolkovsky on Verne | WRKSYS::KLAES | All the Universe, or nothing! | Thu Jul 26 1990 17:08 | 10 |
| "It seems to me, that the first seeds of the idea were sown
by that great science-fiction author Jules Verne. He startled my
brain. He directed my thoughts along certain lines; then came a
desire, and after that, the work of the mind."
- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, the Soviet father of modern
space flight. His American counterpart, Robert H.
Goddard, was similarly affected by the works of H. G.
Wells.
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