Detailed view for the Book: Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures, The (Anthology)

Blurb: 
Thrilling new short stories inspired by the founder of science fiction.

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 Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Edited by Mike Ashley and Eric Brown

Contents:

Copyright and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Return to the Centre of the Earth
A Drama on the Railway by Stephen Baxter
Jehan Thun's Quest by Brian Stableford
Six Weeks in a Balloon by Eric Brown
Londres au XXIc Siecle by James Lovegrove
Giant Swarfs by Ian Watson
Cliff Rhodes and the Most Important Journey by Peter Crowther
The True Story of Barbicane's Voyage by Laurent Genefort
Columbiad by Stephen Baxter
Tableaux, F. by Gwynplaine MacIntyre
The Secret of the Nautilus by Michael Mallory
Doctor Bull's Intervention by Keith Brooke
The Very First Affair by Johan Heliot
Eighty Letters, Plus One by Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt
The Adventurers' League by Justina Robson
Hector Servadac, fils by Adam Roberts
The Mysterious Iowans by Paul Di Filippo
Old Light by Tim Lebbon
The Selene Gardening Society by Molly Brown
A Matter of Mathematics by Tony Ballantyne
The Secret of the Sahara by Richard A. Lupoff
The Golden Quest by Sharan Newman
The True Story of Wilhelm Storitz by Michel Pagel
The Shoal by Liz Williams
Contributors