Book review - "Robur the Conqueror" by Jules Verne

A short novel that Richard Matheson later combined with its sequel Master of the World to make an AIP Vincent Price film of the same name. This has more meat than the sequel - a crazy genius, Robur (a Captain Nemo type) talks at a balloonist conference. They mock him so he later abducts two of them in his super ship, the Albatross. This annoys the two men so much they arrange to sabotage the boat. Then, in a neat twist, they don't report it but try to rip off the design. Robur comes looking for revenge. That's a decent story even though as usual Verne spends more time describing places they fly over than dramatising the plot.  Not bad - fast paced.