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RE: The Mighty Orinoco

From: Dennis Kytasaari <djk~at~epguides.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:43:14 -0600
To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Ron,

Remember that Art Evans is the managing editor of the series and he's on
our side. He's bent the rules a bit, otherwise we might never have
gotten the opportunity to read this tale so soon. I'm sure he'll
commment more one he see's this thread, but it was also discussed in
forum thread back in May/June 2000 when the series was announced...

        http://jv.gilead.org.il/forum/2000/05/

        http://jv.gilead.org.il/forum/2000/06/

I see Amazon already has this book listed, but they are citing May 2003
as the release date.


Hopefully Stanford's translation of "Les Frères Kip" can be taken out of
the hands of the publisher where it is currently floundering and get
added to this excellent series.


Also coming on the horizon is the first ever (in book form) English
translation of the play "Voyage a Travers L’Impossible." This book is a
product of the NAJVS, Inc. and will be published by Prometheus Books
sometime in 2003. More details on this release will be posted to the
forum as they are finalized.

-djk
 
Dennis Kytasaari djk~at~epguides.com http://epguides.com/
 Jules Verne-"Mobilis in Mobile" http://epguides.com/djk/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il
> [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of rmiller~at~crosslink.com
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:10 PM
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Subject: Re: The Mighty Orinoco
>
> 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 - 03:44:40 IST

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