Voyages Extraordinaires

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Thanks for this, Dave.  Cool site!

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 8, 2009 11:27 AM
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>Subject: Voyages Extraordinaires
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>Voyages Extraordinaires is a weblog for people of intelligence and
>good breeding who enjoy Victorian-Edwardian Scientific Romances and
>Retro-Futurism, Victoriana and Neo-Victorianism, Voyages
>Extraordinaires and Imperialist Romances, Gothic Horror, Pulp Fiction,
>the Golden Ages of Hollywood and of Travel, silent and early films,
>points suprêmes and real life adventures into places exotic and
>historic.
>
>http://voyagesextraordinaires.blogspot.com/I
>
>n this year-long project, we will be presenting excerpts from leading
>Victorian-Edwardian Scientific Romances and Retro-Futurism, Voyages
>Extraordinaires, Imperialist Romances,and Gothic Horror. Its purpose
>is to provide an ongoing and simple reader to acquaint the
>newly-interested with the classics of the genre, and to reacquaint the
>familiar with some old favorites.
>
>Through the course of the year, these works will be presented
>according to themes that reflect the broader concerns of
>Victorian-Edwardian society, rather than by author or genre. Rather
>than label each entry by author, they will be labelled by theme. It is
>hoped that by doing so, the reader may gain insight into the era's
>zeitgeist as well as familiarity with its literature.
>
>This anthology is an outgrowth of the Voyages Extraordinaires:
>Scientific Romances in a Bygone Age weblog, and we encourage you to
>visit our original weblog for more on the genre and its modern
>imitators.
>
>http://vexanthology.blogspot.com/
>