The Mighty Orinoco

About the contributors

About the contributors arthur b. evans is professor of French at DePauw University and managing editor of the scholarly journal Science Fiction Studies. He has published numerous books and articles on Verne and early French science fiction, including the award-winning Jules Verne Rediscovered (Greenwood, 1988). He is general editor of the Wesleyan Early Classics of Science Fiction series. stanford l. luce is professor emeritus of French at Miami University in Ohio and author of the first American Ph.D. dissertation on Verne (Yale, 1953). He has published extensively on Céline and has recently translated several Verne novels including The Mighty Orinoco, The Kip Brothers, and The Begum’s Millions. walter james miller is a poet, playwright, professor of English at New York University, translator, and Verne scholar. His contribution to this edition of The Mighty Orinoco was made possible by a grant from the Artists Fund of the New York Foundation for the Arts/Ruttenberg Foundation. His sixty-four books include an annotated edition of Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea published by the Naval Institute Press in 1993. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Verne, Jules, 1828–1905. [Superbe Orénoque. English] The mighty Orinoco / Jules Verne ; translated by Stanford L. Luce ; edited by Arthur B. Evans ; introduction and notes by Walter James Miller.— 1st English ed. p. cm—(The Wesleyan early classics of science fiction) Includes bibliographical references. isbn 0-8195-6511-3 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 0-8195-6780-9 (paper : alk. paper)— i. Luce, Stanford, 1923– ii. Evans, Arthur B. iii. Miller, Walter James, 1918– iv. Title. v. Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series. pq2469.s87 e5 2002 843'.8—dc21 2002033180 ...