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In the Year 2889

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The recent publication of the short story "In the Year 2889" (Wildside Press, 2006) is a welcome addition to the Jules Verne library. I read it first back in my early college days in the late sixties, and I have been hoping for a new edition of the text.

At 32 pages, it is a slim volume, but nonetheless significant. There is some question as to whether the story was actually penned by Jules Verne or might be, at least in part, the work of Verne's son Michel. The story is in keeping with Jules Verne's optimistic view of future possibilities.

While the cover art by Sophie Martin is quite striking, I would have preferred the volume be illustrated throughout. That would have greatly enhanced the pamphlete-size volume.

Much of the story presented, a day in the life of a citizen of the 20th century, sounds like an episode of "The Jetsons," with a man being clothed by a mechanical dresser as he is whisked off to work.

It is quick and light reading, to be sure, but oh! the memories it rekindles of a vision gone by, a vision of life almost 1000 years into the future.

Thank you, Monsieur Verne. Thank you, Wildside Press.

"Would not our contemporaries prize the telephone and the telephote more highly if they had not forgotten the telegraph?" First published in 1889, Michel Verne (Jules's son) imagines the world in 1000 years. In little more than 100, we've made lots of the progress he dreamed of...

Not sure why people are getting up set because this is a short story rather than a novel. They should take that up with the author. I had never read this before but really enjoyed the "look" into the future. Its not long, it is a short story after all, but absolutely worth reading.

A day in the life... mainly an idea piece. Interesting to see how many imagined things we already have or have progressed beyond as well as those not yet. Quite an imagination has Jules Verne. Worth the time to read this freebie if you like futuristic speculation.

This is a very odd, but amusing short story by Jules Verne. It details a basic day in the life of a major businessman...who just happens to be living nearly a thousand years in the future. Certain elements of this story, are reminiscent of "Paris In The 20th Century". That is Verne's only other work, to be published posthumously. This is about equal to that story, but I would have liked for this one to have a little bit MORE to it. Good, but if you get this or Paris, pick the latter.

not to crazy about this book. it is somewhat a decent read if you have a half hour to get rid of. i see it as an aston martin lagonda, a really old idea trying to appear way ahead of its time and failing!!! im glad it was free on kindle....

It is pretty short but nothing to get upset about. I do not get how people can send telegraphs to Jupiter. I mean its like a gas giant, no one can live there!

My feeling of this so called book is just that so called, it's maybe a long chapter of a unwritten book and on the first page of this so called book it say that it may have been written by Verne's son. Of what is written is good but some how missing that Jules touch of writing and feeling, it is a day in the life of business leader and it has a forerunner of the internet and newspaper on line a nice touch and a little scary that he was able to foretell of this type of techonolgy, I wounder if he left any notes as to this book or if this is all there is to it, I would hope not as it had the making of a very good book from a master story teller.

i got 52% of the way done and I started coming accross words that most 10-11 year olds wouldn't know. other than that, it's a good story.

Very well written, but it appears to be missing something. After 5 minutes reading, I am 40 percent done.