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Re: The Mighty Orinoco

From: <rmiller~at~crosslink.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:10:11 -0500
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

On 30 Dec 02, at 17:33, Skravitz~at~aol.com wrote:

> I called Wesleyan University Press at 800-421-1561 (a U.S. phone
> number) and I was assured that The Mighty Orinoco would be available
> sometime in January.
> This is a book in the Early Classics of Science Fiction series, the
> first
> English edition, translated by Stanford L. Luce, edited by Arthur B.
> Evans, with an introduction and notes by Walter James Miller.
>

Excellent news, since this is one of the only two Verne novels I've
never read.

A question, however: I wonder exactly how Wesleyan justified this
as part of their "Early Classics of Science Fiction" series? Verne
was certainly a seminal SF author, but not everything he wrote was
science fiction . . . including "The Mighty Orinoco". I would be hard
put to describe it as science fiction . . . and as a "classic" of early
science fiction? That seems to be a bit much.

RM
Received on Tue 31 Dec 2002 - 02:11:30 IST

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