Monday, 22 September 2025

Voyages

 

All of Jules Verne's novels are classified as "Extraordinary Voyages":

to the Moon
around the world
under the sea
off on a comet
in a balloon
in Robur's vehicles
to the centre of the Earth
etc

HG Wells has:

in the Moon
through time
to the bottom of the sea

Poul Anderson follows them with:

a relativistic interstellar ramjet in Tau Zero
the quantum hyperdrive in the Technic History
other kinds of hyperdrive in other works
time travellers in STL spaceships in There Will Be Time (an ingenious idea even though I say it who did think of it before reading it)
other kinds of time travel which we listed here

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I esp. appreciated Verne's FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. One problem with his stories being how badly many of them were "translated" from French into English by incompetent hacks.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

I think I'll reread CENTRE OF THE EARTH. It's so long since I read it. It's disappointing that they do not reach the Centre but I would like to reread what they did do.

Paul.