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Re: new book series from Wesleyan UP

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott~at~kreative.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:27:23 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

I had an email from a vorum member (lost my email ??) who said that he was
working with Aeonian Press on a similar project to reprint the best of the
old translations and any new ones that met critical review criteria of the
forum more or less. I don't know if this message went out to the whole
forum or not. What is the status?
Norman M. Wolcott, nwolcott~at~kreative.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Evans" <aevans2~at~tds.net>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: new book series from Wesleyan UP


> 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 Fri 02 Jun 2000 - 20:05:47 IDT

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