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The Kip Brothers.(Book review)

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From: Extrapolation
Date: 20070622
Author:Hassler, Donald M.

Jules Verne, The Kip Brothers. Translated by Standford L. Luce, edited by Arthur B. Evans, introduction and notes by Jean-Michel Margot. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 508 pp. illustrated. $29.95 cloth.

Jules Verne wrote positivist and sensawonder adventure and technological extrapolation as a young writer, but his last years as a writer at the turn of the 20th century seem now (and to me) even more interesting and important for our understanding of science fiction. His brooding thoughts on his recently dead brother Paul as well as on the deaths of his ...

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