BearManor Media just published the audiobook version of Extraordinary Visions: Stories Inspired by Jules Verne. You can get it at Amazon, Audiobooks.com, Audible, Hoopla Digital, AudioBookStore.com, Downpour, and Indigo.
Perhaps you lack the time to sit and read print books or ebooks, but enjoy listening to literature instead. You heard about Extraordinary Visions when it got published, but passed on it, since the anthology wasn’t available in your preferred format. Your long-awaited opportunity arrived today.
While playing the audiobook, the voice of narrator Tad Davis will transport you into the marvelous world of every story. He imbues a distinct and appropriate quality to each character’s dialogue.
As you listen, you’ll learn the answers to thirteen perplexing questions:
- If mysterious beings dwell at the center of the Earth, might they take revenge on the surface?
- The Baltimore Gun Club wouldn’t try to alter Earth’s rotational speed—would they?
- Who robbed that bank in Durango, and why did the thief’s movements seem so mechanical?
- On the front lines of World War I, did a steam-powered mechanical elephant join in battle?
- What if your son recreated a thrilling chapter of 20,000 Leagues…inside your house?
- What really happened when Nellie Bly met Jules Verne during her 1889 trip around the world?
- Captain Nemo vowed never to set foot on land, so why would he go ashore to lead a dangerous rescue mission?
- What is so odd, so very odd, about a particular shop full of Vernian antiques?
- When a father and son find an old box on one of Norway’s Lofoten Islands, could it contain Captain Nemo’s logbook?
- At the traveling Jules Verne adventure show, don’t those costumed actors seem a bit too realistic?
- When Civil War Confederates build an underwater prison, can Captain Nemo free its enslaved prisoners?
- The keeper of the lighthouse at the end of the world seems content with his mechanical inventions, but why does someone want to kill him?
- What secrets await a salvage team raising the Nautilus, and who else desires that submarine?
You may, of course, still purchase the ebook, paperback, and hardcover editions. But before today, you couldn’t buy the audiobook version.
If you’ve long enjoyed stories by Jules Verne, or just recently developed an interest in his novels, consider joining the North American Jules Verne Society (NAJVS). Few authors spark fan clubs still thriving over a century after their death, on other continents, but Verne did.
NAJVS never undertook an anthology of new fiction before sponsoring Extraordinary Visions: Stories Inspired by Jules Verne. Co-editors for this anthology include Reverend Matthew T. Hardesty and some guy whose nickname is—
Poseidon’s Scribe
