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Sequels to JV (Was: Nautilus: A new novel by Cornish author Craig Weatherhill)

From: Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:55:41 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

I ordered the book and am eager to start reading!

I was wondering: has anyone ever compiled a list of sequels to JV
novels? Not counting films or video games, nor works with only
throwaway references to Verne, but only novels and short stories where
the main plot is a sequel to one of Verne's works. Off the top of my
head, I can think of:

Thomas F Monteleone: The Secret Sea (Nemo travelling through parallel worlds)
Philip José Farmer: The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Fogg is really an
alien on a diplomatic mission)
Jean Jules-Verne: Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff (Further adventures
of the Czar's courrier, a novelisation of the sequel to the film
version of JV's novel)
Jan Feith: De reis om de wereld in 40 dagen (Phileas' son James makes
the trip in 40 days)
Adam Roberts: Splinter (Hector Servadac's adventure was a
dream/vision, a warning of events that finally take place in this
novel)
Mike Ashley and Eric Brown (Eds.): The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne
Adventures (which contains several stories that are sequels to JV's
work)

Some googling revealed two titles I had never heard of:

Enrique de Benito: El hijo del Captain Nemo (sequel to 20.000 lieues)
Molly Brown: The Selene Gardening Society (sequel to the lunar novels)

I'm not sure whether League of Extraordinary Gentlemen should be
counted as a sequel to 20K, only because it features Nemo and the
Nautilus...

And of course Verne himself wrote a couple of sequels to his own novels.

I'm sure there are many more!

Cheers,
Garmt.

On 30 March 2010 09:16, Craig Weatherhill <craig~at~agantavas.org> wrote:
> Many thanks for the review, Ray - although this tussle-haired sea dog is
> more at home on the back of a horse these days.  I still have big
> connections with the sea - where I live on the Land's End peninsula of
> Cornwall, with sea on three and a half sides, it's impossible not to.  The
> scene at Botallack Mine will be accurately described - the location is just
> ten minutes drive away for me.
>
> When writing and researching the book, I was determined that the Nautilus of
> the story MUST be Verne's down to the last rivet - no spears, fish-tails or
> serrated edges - I decided that the bow of Jean Gagneaux's model, just
> tapering to a sharp point, was perfect.  Sorry about the 007 style
> one-liner: "Do mind the stairs" - I simply couldn't resist it!
>
> Thanks again, Ray
> Craig
>
> ha Pask Lowen dhis ynwedh (Happy Easter to you, too.  In Cornish)
>
>
>
> On 30 Mer 2010, at 02:19, Ray Mudway wrote:
>
>> Hi gents,
>>          purchased this book a few weeks ago & read it over 2 days. Quite
>> interesting, one engraving of Nautilus & one photo of the author -- a
>> suitably tussle-haired, Sea-dog type -- after the contents & a list of
>> characters, there's 342 full pages of actual story.
>>
>> This sequel's basic plot is as expected -- couldn't be anything else
>> really, given its true-to-type following of JV's / Nemo's story & the
>> setting in the current early 21st Century.  Despite that restriction, the
>> characters are well written & believable.  The story starts with a re-cap of
>> the final events on Mysterious Island as per JV's book & then moves to
>> events in today's world & the re-appearance of Nautilus.  The unusual
>> circumstances of Nautilus's re-discovery comes later.  How these
>> circumstances came about is explained in a very clever & lucid way and,
>> while I haven't checked the charts & currents myself, is quite believable.
>>
>> To me the story doesn't have any really surprising twists but does have
>> suspense & excitement.  It works well & flows nicely, though just a touch
>> "James Bond" in one or two places and with one obligatory? sex scene --
>>  probably written deliberately for a possible 007 movie which would make a
>> neat linking of the two genres, increasing its box-office audience.  Raw
>> luck as well as nerve helps the new Nautilus crew win through on occasion
>> and Captain Nemo's original good design & workmanship doesn't let them down
>> despite some unusual & difficult tight spots.
>>
>> Technical details are accurate -- depth of seabed & Deeps, modern sub
>> speeds etc.  The Nautilus seems to be the classic JV beast in every way, is
>> very believable & works well in the story -- some items are well described,
>> make boating sense & actually work much better than the "Disney" design does
>> (never understood that Archimedean screw underneath !!).
>>
>> One intriguing facet of this book is how the deaths of the Prince's
>> family, Nautilus's construction & operational history and date anomalies of
>> JV's stories are also very well described & all is linked together with a
>> rational theory that makes sense.
>>
>> Two thumbs up,
>> Happy Easter, Ray
>>  (\_/)
>> (O.o)
>> O(>o)> o o o o o o o  Bunny throwing Easter eggs
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson"
>> <everson~at~evertype.com>
>> To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: Nautilus: A new novel by Cornish author Craig Weatherhill
>>
>>> Craig and I were wondering -- have any of you read the sequel?
>>> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>>
>>
>
> --
> Craig Weatherhill
>
>
Received on Tue 30 Mar 2010 - 14:55:46 IDT

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