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Ste. Honorine

From: Ian Thompson <Ian.Thompson~at~ges.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:35:19 +0000
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Tomorrow, February 26th, is the feast day of Saint Honorine in France, so an appropriate day for a posting. French colleagues, and other Francophone Vernians, might be interested in a science fiction novel in which Verne plays a prominent part. The book is; Johan Heliot, "La Lune seule le sait", Folio SF, Paris, 2000, 368pp. ISBN 978-2-07-042190-9. The story opens with Verne sailing into the port of Brest in the St Michel III. He has been absent from France for decades due to the rigours of the Empire regime, leaving Honorine in the care of their son Michel, while Verne seeks refuge on the British island of Guernesey.
I will not reveal the plot...suffice it to say that it involves extra-terrestrials and lunar travel.
The book gained a prize in 2001 as the best francophone science fiction in 2000.
In his dedication to me in my copy, the author wrote;
Pour Ian Thompson,cet hommage iconoclaste au grand Jules, de la part d'un autre de ses admirateurs.
Ian Thompson.
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