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Authors: Mike Ashley,Eric Brown (ed)
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Liz Williams
(b. 1965) is the daughter of a conjuror and a Gothic novelist, and currently lives in Brighton, England. She has a PhD in philosophy of science from Cambridge and her anti-career ranges from reading tarot cards on Brighton pier to teaching in Central Asia. She currently writes full time. Her novel
The Ghost Sister
was published in July 2001. Further novels include
Empire of Bones
(2002),
The Poison Master
(2003),
Nine Layers of Sky
(2003), and
Banner of Souls,
(2004). She has had over forty short stories published
in Asimov’s, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy
and
The Third Alternative.
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Table of Contents
The Mammoth Book of NEW JULES VERNE ADVENTURES
COPYRIGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Return to the Centre of the Earth
A DRAMA ON THE RAILWAY by Stephen Baxter
JEHAN THUN’S QUEST by Brian Stableford
SIX WEEKS IN A BALLOON by Eric Brown
LONDRES AU XXIE SIÈCLE by James Lovegrove
GIANT DWARFS by Ian Watson
CLIFF RHODES AND THE MOST IMPORTANT JOURNEY by Peter Crowther
1 The two strangers
2 Ernest Hemingway was a bullfighter?!
3 In the presence of a literary man
4 What the hell’s `tipsey’?
5 Enter Cliff Rhodes
6 The man on the bus
7 Thick with possibilities
8 The second parchment
9 The back room
10 A parting of the ways
11 A sense of closure
THE TRUE STORY OF BARBICANE’S VOYAGE by Laurent Genefort
1 What History Records . . .
2 Columbus of the Moon
3 The Selenites
4 The Philosophical Calculator
5 “The Moon had revealed all its Secrets”
COLUMBIAD by Stephen Baxter
TABLEAUX by F. Gwynplaine Maclntyre
THE SECRET OF THE NAUTILUS by Michael Mallory
DOCTOR BULL’S INTERVENTION by Keith Brooke
1 Sunny Meadows?
2 Maddy and Nicholas consult
3 Tracy butts in
4 Who, then, was Dr Bull?
5 All returned to normal
6 Consternation and a critical point
7 In the following weeks
8 A Heroic Resolution
9 Gideon gives advice
10 The distant view
11 Matters go so far
12 Denouement
THE VERY FIRST AFFAIR by Johan Heliot
EIGHTY LETTERS, PLUS ONE by Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt
THE ADVENTURERS’ LEAGUE by Justina Robson
HECTOR SERVADAC, FILS by Adam Roberts
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THE MYSTERIOUS IOWANS by Paul Di Filippo
OLD LIGHT by Tim Lebbon
THE SELENE GARDENING SOCIETY by Molly Brown
Chapter One: J. T. Maston takes up gardening
Chapter Two: In which a solution is suggested
Chapter Three: A delegation
Chapter Four: Fiona thinks it through
Chapter Five: A garden on the moon
Chapter Six: The great work begins, and a cablegram arrives
Chapter Seven: A Frenchman, a Norwegian, and a cannon
Chapter Eight: A new beginning
A MATTER OF MATHEMATICS by Tony Ballantyne
THE SECRET OF THE SAHARA by Richard A. Lupoff
THE GOLDEN QUEST by Sharan Newman
THE TRUE STORY OF WILHELM STORITZ by Michel Pagel
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THE SHOAL by Liz Williams
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