Gary Westfahl, a professor emeritus at the University of La Verne, California, has authored, edited, or co-edited 35 books about science fiction and fantasy, and has written 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 Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Gary Westfahl

I. The Writings of Jules Verne

Humor in the Works of Jules Verne

Arthur B. Evans

Imperialism and the Sublime of the Enlightenment in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires

Bed Paudyal

Residual Space: Verne's Mysterious Island

­ Marie-HélÈne Huet

The Return to the Frontier in the Extraordinary Voyage: Verne's The Mysterious Island and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

John Rieder

Verne Among the Punks, or "It's Not All Just a Victorian Clockwork"

Howard V. Hendrix

Winter Lights: Disaster, Interpretation, and Jules Verne's Polar Novels

­Marie-HélÈne Huet

Postwar Verne Pastiches and Surrealism

Nicolas Saucy

II. Responses to Verne's Works

"Comrade Jules Verne vs. the Sharks of Imperialism" in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Crimson Island

Ekaterina Yudina

When Less Becomes More: Adapting Around the World in Eighty Days

Kieran O'Driscoll

There Are No Chicken Dinosaurs on The Mysterious Island: Or, Why the Film Adaptations of Jules Verne's Novel Are Mostly Terrible

Terry Harpold

Have Verne-Will Travel: When the Three Stooges and Paladin Met Phileas Fogg

Gary Westfahl

Halley's "More Ample Creation": Divine Utility in Hollow Earth Theory and Fiction

Peter W. Sinnema

Professor Lidenbrock vs. the Mole Men: The Hollow Earth After Verne

Terry Harpold

III. Steampunk

Finding Nemo: Verne's Antihero as Original Steampunk

Mike Perschon

Steamjunk: Four Works by Philip José Farmer, the Deservedly Unacknowledged Father of Steampunk

Gary Westfahl

Decadent Science, Steampunk Effects, and Caleb Carr a Century Later

Donald M. Hassler

A Study in Sherlock, or Constructing Holmes in the ­­Twenty-First Century

Stephen W. Potts

Verne's Depths: A Cosmogony of Possibilities

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

If Jules Verne Were Alive Today... Reflections on Steampunk and Technothrillers

Gary Westfahl

Steampunk: The Authors Speak

James P. Blaylock, Jonathan Green, Stephen Hunt, and Paul Di Filippo

A Bibliography of the Works of Jules Verne

A Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Jules Verne

A Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Steampunk Science Fiction

About the Contributors

Index