Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius - Hardcover

Anderson, K.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074344406X ISBN 13: 9780743444064

Publisher: Star Trek, 2002

Synopsis

A young Captain Nemo, Jules Verne's quintessential hero, embarks on a series of exotic, action-packed adventures into the unknown that take him into the center of the earth, deep into the unexplored reaches of the sea, and to a strange, desert island.

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About the Author

K.J. Anderson is a lifelong admirer of Jules Verne and his works. He lives in Monument, Colorado.

From Publishers Weekly

rolific bestseller Anderson (Hopscotch; the original Star Wars anthologies) pays dashing homage here to Jules Verne (1828-1905), one of the genre's founding fathers and creator of the brooding captain of the Nautilus, hero of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In this fictionalized biography of Verne, Anderson postulates a "real" Andre Nemo, Verne's boyhood friend who lived the life and then some that Verne wanted but didn't dare to follow. After young Nemo's father dies in a shipbuilding accident in Nantes, Verne runs off to sea with Nemo, only to be jerked back by his dry-as-dust father to the caning of his life, then law school. Both Nemo and Verne love the luscious Caroline Arronax, but her heart belongs to Nemo alone. She patiently waits through his exotic adventures, which Verne eventually shapes into his Voyages Extraordinaires (Five Weeks in a Balloon, etc.), wildly popular whales-of-tales that made the French author wealthy and famous. Anderson's rollicking whopper of a novel glides along smoothly in a style deliberately modeled on Verne's own, yet unvexed by the scientific detail that often bogged down Verne's prose and muddied his narrative waters. Anderson's Nemo, whose stories alternate here with Verne's, is a sympathetically drawn Byronic hero, playing off the pedestrian Verne, a multitude of flamboyant pirates, Turkish caliphs, raging sea monsters and the incomparable Caroline, a proto-feminist shipping executive and composer. No one would miss the boat by signing on this fantastic journey. (Jan. 2)Forecast: This title could get a boost from the publication of Verne's last novel, Invasion of the Sea, in its first English edition (reviewed above), plus the reissue of two new editions of The Mysterious Island (one of which is noted below).

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About this edition

• Publisher: Star Trek
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 074344406X
• ISBN 13: 9780743444064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368