The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were (are?) contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers titillated their public with hints of their true...
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About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were (are?) contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers titillated their public with hints of their true natures while not daring to part the veil. Just what was it that restrained them from telling all?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780812524680 (0812524683)
Publish date: April 15th 1993
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Wold Newton (#4)
As so often with Farmer, the idea is great, but then what? He must have been aware of his shortcomings in this department - I can't believe it's a coincidence that he actually wrote Kilgore Trout's Venus on the Half-Shell for him. So here, the starting point is to reimagine Round the World in Eighty...