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The plot of “In the Year 2889″ is undeniably prophetic in both subject and tone. It portrays a day in the busy life of the managing editor of the world’s largest newspaper in New York City (now called Centropolis). This narrative framework serves quite well as a stepping-stone for a detailed description of this entire future world, its technological advancements, its international relations, and its (ironically, still quite 19th-century) social mores…. More >>
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My feeling of this so called book is just that so called, it’s maybe a long chapter of a unwritten book and on the first page of this so called book it say that it may have been written by Verne’s son. Of what is written is good but some how missing that Jules touch of writing and feeling, it is a day in the life of business leader and it has a forerunner of the internet and newspaper on line a nice touch and a little scary that he was able to foretell of this type of techonolgy, I wounder if he left any notes as to this book or if this is all there is to it, I would hope not as it had the making of a very good book from a master story teller.
Rating: 3 / 5
I was very pleased both with the product and with how quickly it arrived. Thank You!
Rating: 5 / 5
Very well written, but it appears to be missing something. After 5 minutes reading, I am 40 percent done.
Rating: 3 / 5
“Would not our contemporaries prize the telephone and the telephote more highly if they had not forgotten the telegraph?” First published in 1889, Michel Verne (Jules’s son) imagines the world in 1000 years. In little more than 100, we’ve made lots of the progress he dreamed of…
Rating: 3 / 5
The recent publication of the short story “In the Year 2889″ (Wildside Press, 2006) is a welcome addition to the Jules Verne library. I read it first back in my early college days in the late sixties, and I have been hoping for a new edition of the text.
At 32 pages, it is a slim volume, but nonetheless significant. There is some question as to whether the story was actually penned by Jules Verne or might be, at least in part, the work of Verne’s son Michel. The story is in keeping with Jules Verne’s optimistic view of future possibilities.
While the cover art by Sophie Martin is quite striking, I would have preferred the volume be illustrated throughout. That would have greatly enhanced the pamphlete-size volume.
Much of the story presented, a day in the life of a citizen of the 20th century, sounds like an episode of “The Jetsons,” with a man being clothed by a mechanical dresser as he is whisked off to work.
It is quick and light reading, to be sure, but oh! the memories it rekindles of a vision gone by, a vision of life almost 1000 years into the future.
Thank you, Monsieur Verne. Thank you, Wildside Press.
Rating: 4 / 5