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Re: Nautilus: A new novel by Cornish author Craig Weatherhill

From: Céline Le Moigne <boutiquejv~at~wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:21:20 +0100
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Hello,
Do you know if the book will be translated in French?
Thanks in advance,

Céline Le Moigne

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De : owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] De la part de
Michael Everson
Envoyé : vendredi 11 décembre 2009 15:15
À : Jules Verne Forum
Objet : Re: Nautilus: A new novel by Cornish author Craig Weatherhill


I forwarded the Harry's comments to Craig. Craig has applied to be a
member of this discussion list, but no one has processed his
membership. (Can this be rectified?)

In any case, he asked me to forward this on.

Michael

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Michael - could you please forward this to Harry. Thanks.

Many. many thanks for your good wishes, Harry. I hope you like the
book. I have made a point of remaining as true to Verne as I can.
Although her new crew has added some rudimentary modern equipment
( basic radar, sonar, etc), I have represented the Nautilus as he
did. The only real change I've made to her is to restrict her depth
capability to be a little more believable. There's also some doubt of
the material from which she was constructed. Other than that, she's
Verne's Nautilus to the last rivet. (My drawing on P156 shows a deck
housing that includes a sort of ram bow - she accidentally holed the
'Scotia' when only a fathom under the surface - therefore her own ram
couldn't possibly have done the damage, so there had to be a three-
cornered feature which could have done it).

I've also tried to sort out the (?deliberate?) date anomalies that
Verne introduces between 20K, The Mysterious Island and the Children
of Captain Grant.

I have wanted to write this book since I was a kid and captivated by
Verne's stories.. TEN years of research was involved, including
salvaging the 25% of Verne's original that was purged out - for more
than a century - by British Victorian censors. It also included (some
years ago) a 24 hour trip on an Upholder class conventional sub
(before the UK sold all six of the finest conventional subs ever built
to other countries - some of whom should never be allowed to have
them, in my opinion), whose commanding officer, and other officers
gave me a whole lot of info which is written into the book.

I sincerely hope that you like this book and that other true Verne
afficianadoes do, too.

If it does well, I have ideas for a follow-up, 'Water Horse'. This
has a historical prologue (already written) when Julius Caesar's fleet
destroyed the Celtic Veneti fleet off the south coast of Brittany in
56 BC. The rest, of course, is set just a few years from now, as
'Nautilus' is. And, of course, the 'Nautilus' herself takes centre
stage.

To write a sequel to the classic works of such a magnificent author as
Jules Verne was, at best, audacious, - or bloody cheeky - especially
for someone who has only previously published two novels. I hope that
I've done him justice, because that was my sincere intention (hence
the links between near-future and past that occur in this book).

(Mind you - I really so think - or at least hope - there is a movie to
be made from this book.)

Yours,
Craig

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Craig Weatherhill
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