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Originally Posted by Dave Jules Verne I am familiar with from the various films but haven't read much. Conan Doyle - I have read Sherlock Holmes, but not 'The Lost World'. |
On Verne -- be sure to find someone who knows the more recent translations, as I found out while working at a bookstore that nearly all English translations of Verne deviate considerably from the original (a long story for another time), and only in the last 5 years or so have truly faithful translations been done ... in many cases some of his most famous works have, according to those who've read the originals, "yet to be read in English". On Conan Doyle, there are several other things by him that would classify as sf ... in fact, these were gathered together, I believe, into a couple of collections -- edited, I think, by John Brunner(?), with the possible exception of the other Professor Challenger stories, some of which were gathered together in an older collection,
The Poison Belt.