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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Kind of a fun character, but Verne forgot to write a story for him. ( ) I like Verne very much even though much of his works I have read so far are cartoonish. Nonetheless, there is just a positive, forward looking sense that I find invigorating. This is not the best I have read to date , and I understand the last he wrote. Some say it is a poor cousin of Captain Nemo, and I get that. It is also a sequel apparently to Robert the Conquerer, which I have now obtained via Gutenberg so will report on that later Big Ship 11 March 2020 One of the lesser known Verne works and somewhat of a follow up to" Robur the Conqueror". Unlike "Robur", the protagonist is fairly likeable. "Robur" is almost a travelogue - The antagonist, Robur, appears quickly. In "Master", the story is more of a mystery - Robur appears at the end of the story. In this it is somewhat like Nemo's appearance in "Mysterious Island", though "Master" is certainly not up to its story-telling and depth. I enjoyed reading it as a technological mystery. It does not have the foretelling of "Robur" but I don't think that was the intent. Verne is simply recycling a character because he needs a genius antagonist. Just read and enjoy for what it is. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: Jules Verne, author of such works as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, is recognized as one of the masters of the golden age of science fiction. In The Master of the World, a series of catastrophes strike the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States, and an intrepid investigator postulates that they might all be connected to a mysterious mad scientist who is sequestered in a compound in the Blue Ridge Mountains. .No library descriptions found. |
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