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Re: new book series from Wesleyan UP

From: Art Evans <aevans2~at~tds.net>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:14:30 -0500
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Dear friends,

Yes, it's true that _Le Superbe Orénoque_ and _Bourses de voyage_ are not
science fiction novels, and that _L'Invasion de la mer_ is only (very)
marginally so. But I managed to strike a deal with Wesleyan UP to include
these Verne titles anyhow. Originally, I proposed to them a "Jules Verne
Series," but they thought the scope of the new series should be much wider.
So I changed it to "Early Classics of Science Fiction" to include not only
Verne but also a variety of other early writers. They accepted this revised
proposal.

Currently under consideration for this series--in addition to those
untranslated Verne novels I mentioned--are the following:
TRANSLATIONS
- Ted Baxter's translation of _Voyage à travers l'impossible_
- Sidney Kravitz's new translation of _Ile mystérieuse_
- Philippe Willems's translation of Albert Robida's _Le Vingtième siècle_
- a translation of Camille Flammarion's _Stella_
- a translation of Gustave Le Rouge's _Le Prisonnier de la planète Mars_ and
_La Guerre des vampires_
- a translation of Maurice Renard's _Le Péril bleu_
- a translation of Emile Souvestre's _Le Monde tel qu'il sera_
- a translation of J.-H. Rosny aîné's _Vamireh_ and _Les Navigateurs de
l'infini_
REISSUES
- Karel Capek's _R.U.R._
- James de Mille's _A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder_
- George Allan England's _Darkness and Dawn_
- Ludwig Holberg's _A Journey to the World Underground_
- Adam Seaborn's _Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery_
- Abraham Merritt's _The Moon Pool_
- Percy Greg's _Across the Zodiac_
- S. Fowler Wright's _Deluge_
- Fitz-James O'Brien's _Short Stories_
- M.P. Shiel's _The Purple Cloud_
- Garret P. Serviss's _Edison's Conquest of Mars_
- Ignatius Donnelly's _Caesar's Column_
- William Lane's _White or Yellow?_
- A Space Opera Reader
CRITICISM
- essays on H.G. Wells
- Hugo Gernsback on Science Fiction
- Evolution and Science Fiction from Darwin to Wells
- The Science Fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle

If you have any suggestions for the series--Verne or non-Verne--please
contact me at above e-mail address. I will make sure that it is considered.
Our general criteria are as follows:
- significant works of pre-1940 science fiction, with emphasis on those
works not currently in print or those for which scholarly editions are not
available.
- "science fiction" defined very broadly: e.g., to include utopias,
imaginary voyages, alternative histories, etc. but not horror or
Tolkien-type fantasy.
- "scholarly editions": 20-25 page critical introductions,
annotations/notes, bibliographies (primary & secondary), and other appendix
material as warranted.

I hope to hear from you!

Best,
Art
Received on Thu 01 Jun 2000 - 04:20:07 IDT

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