Jules Verne Lives!

Gary Westfahl, a professor emeritus at the University of La Verne, California, has authored, edited, or co-edited 27 books about science fiction and fantasy, and hundreds of articles and reviews. In 2003, he received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award for his lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGary WestfahlI. The Writings of Jules VerneHumor in the Works of Jules VerneArthur B. EvansImperialism and the Sublime of the Enlightenment in Jules Verne's Voyages ExtraordinairesBed PaudyalResidual Space: Verne's Mysterious Island­ Marie-HélÈne HuetThe Return to the Frontier in the Extraordinary Voyage: Verne's The Mysterious Island and Kubrick's 2001: A Space OdysseyJohn RiederVerne Among the Punks, or "It's Not All Just a Victorian Clockwork"Howard V. HendrixWinter Lights: Disaster, Interpretation, and Jules Verne's Polar Novels­Marie-HélÈne HuetPostwar Verne Pastiches and SurrealismNicolas SaucyII. Responses to Verne's Works"Comrade Jules Verne vs. the Sharks of Imperialism" in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Crimson IslandEkaterina YudinaWhen Less Becomes More: Adapting Around the World in Eighty DaysKieran O'DriscollThere Are No Chicken Dinosaurs on The Mysterious Island: Or, Why the Film Adaptations of Jules Verne's Novel Are Mostly TerribleTerry HarpoldHave Verne—Will Travel: When the Three Stooges and Paladin Met Phileas FoggGary WestfahlHalley's "More Ample Creation": Divine Utility in Hollow Earth Theory and FictionPeter W. SinnemaProfessor Lidenbrock vs. the Mole Men: The Hollow Earth After VerneTerry HarpoldIII. SteampunkFinding Nemo: Verne's Antihero as Original SteampunkMike PerschonSteamjunk: Four Works by Philip José Farmer, the Deservedly Unacknowledged Father of SteampunkGary WestfahlDecadent Science, Steampunk Effects, and Caleb Carr a Century LaterDonald M. HasslerA Study in Sherlock, or Constructing Holmes in the ­­Twenty-First CenturyStephen W. PottsVerne's Depths: A Cosmogony of PossibilitiesAlvaro Zinos-AmaroIf Jules Verne Were Alive Today… Reflections on Steampunk and TechnothrillersGary WestfahlSteampunk: The Authors SpeakJames P. Blaylock, Jonathan Green, Stephen Hunt, and Paul Di FilippoA Bibliography of the Works of Jules VerneA Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Jules VerneA Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Steampunk Science FictionAbout the ContributorsIndex