Jules Verne: In the Year 2889
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“In the Year 2889,” which was first published in 1889, describes a futuristic day in the life of a 20th century newspaper editor. Much of the tale sounds like an episode of “The Jetsons.” For example, a man is clothed by a mechanical dresser before being whisked off to work. The tale, which is set in New York City (now called Centropolis), delves into what the future world might look like, including technological advancements, international relations, and social mores. First published n 1889 under the name of Jules Verne, “In the Year 2889″ may be chiefly the work of Jules Verne’s son, Michel Verne. Michel, who was in charge of publishing his father’s work late in Jules Verne’s life, may have had financial motivation to utilize his Jules Verne’s well-known pen name. Regardless of actual authorship, many of the topics covered in “In the Year 2889″ echo the thoughts of Jules Verne, and the tenor of the book is generally in keeping with Jules Verne’s optimistic view of future possibilities.
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I was very pleased both with the product and with how quickly it arrived. Thank You!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Very well written, but it appears to be missing something. After 5 minutes reading, I am 40 percent done.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
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 excellent 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 small 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 building of a very excellent book from a master tale teller.
Reader’s 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 small more than 100, we’ve made lots of the progress he dreamed of…
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The recent publication of the fleeting tale “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 tale was really penned by Jules Verne or might be, at least in part, the work of Verne’s son Michel. The tale is in keeping with Jules Verne’s optimistic view of future possibilities.
While the take in art by Sophie Martin is reasonably arresting, I would have preferred the volume be illustrated throughout. That would have momentously enhanced the pamphlete-size volume.
Much of the tale open, 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 nearly 1000 years into the future.
Thank you, Monsieur Verne. Thank you, Wildside Press.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5