Excelsior Editions

"One of the newest shining stars to be added to [the] constellation of recent Verne translations is The Sphinx of the Ice Realm, translated by Frederick Paul Walter ... A noteworthy addition to the ongoing international revival of Jules Verne, this book is highly recommended for all aficionados of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires." - Science Fiction Studies "The book is gripping right up until the end ... Here together are two great fantastical ocean novels by master writers who do not deter our active imaginations: the ocean is used as an adventure playground with untold mysteries, nightmares, wonders, and vulnerabilities." - San Francisco Book Review "...a valuable addition to the literature on Verne and 19th-century explorer narratives." - CHOICE "...an Antarctic adventure story that seeks to rival, in its macabre atmosphere, Poe's original tale ... the excellent Textual Notes gloss Verne's rampant allusions to Poe's oeuvre. A book like this goes some distance towards establishing how recursive and intertextual early SF often was." - Los Angeles Review of Books