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

From: Dennis Kytasaari <djk~at~epguides.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:31:02 -0500
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>, Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
Cc: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

The Nautilus appears in the Dirk Pitt adventure "Valhalla Rising" by Clive
Cussler.


Quoting Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>:

> 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
> >
> >
>
>
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