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Entries in Jules Verne (2)

Sunday
Apr132014

Quite Quotable

There was the class of superstitious people; they are not content simply to ignore what is true, they also believe what is not true.

Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

Monday
Jan042010

Sailing the Aether with Abney Park

I’m biased. I love music with a science fiction and fantasy slant. To be honest, that’s what first drew me to Abney Park. I saw them at DragonCon in 2008 where the program described them as a steampunk band. (Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that hearkens back to the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells in terms of setting, technology, and tone.) I became a fan the moment I listened to Lost Horizons.

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