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Re: Who is familiar with this (apparent) JV hoax from the '50s?

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:17:46 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Hi Tom,

> The story was presented as Verne's prediction of the twentieth century. The
> protagonist travels from Paris to Universal City, capital of "the United
> States of the Two Americas", via a subterranean transatlantic train tunnel.
> He then communicates with his wife in Paris, using what I recall (maybe
> wrongly) as a telephone. The state of the world is described in dialogue
> between the minor characters; the only line I recall is "The Chinese Emperor
> must impose birth control on his subjects."

This sounds a little like "La journee d'un journaliste". Are you sure it
wasn't a (maybe liberal) translation of that story?

Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Thu 05 Oct 2006 - 11:18:01 IST

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