Jules Verne Lives!

<p> This volume is a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Essays study Verne's various novels--including <I>Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island</I> and <I>The Adventures of Captain Hatteras</I>. Included essays offer analyses of literary responses to Verne's work assessments of film adaptations of his novels and discussions of steampunk the Verne-inspired science fiction subgenre that has influenced writers like Philip Jose Farmer Caleb Carr and Adam Roberts.</p>