Download or read book Jules Verne Lives! written by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. 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.