Thursday, June 07, 2018

Book review - "Master of the World" (1904) by Jules Verne

Weird book. Like many a Verne novel it starts with strange sightings/things happening... a man investigates, Strock, he pokes around some places, he gets some letters warning him off, then discovers a mighty ship/aeroplane/sub driven by the Master of the World aka Robur from the previous novel (which Verne politely recaps). Just when you think it's getting good though, some lightning hits the ship, it crashes, Strock escapes and that's about it. What an anti-climax! The ship does have a cool name "The Terror".

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