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The Wizard of the Sea
The Wizard of the Sea
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Additionally titled: or a Trip Under the Ocean
With a mysterious and futuristic (for 1900) submarine operated by a megalomaniacal captain, a battle with an octopus, a giant squid, men held prisoners as the sub travels many, many leagues (distance leagues, not depth ones... maybe about twenty-thousand of them?), electrified hull plates to chase off attacking natives, and so much more that will be familiar, you might be forgiven for thinking this is simply a retitled "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
You are half right. It is an entirely different book but with an almost entirely same plot.
By today's standards this would be classified as plagiarism, pure and simple, but when written it got past the lawyers of the day. So, here you have an alternate (slightly) look at the same basic story as written, not by Verne, but by "Roy Rockwood."
With a mysterious and futuristic (for 1900) submarine operated by a megalomaniacal captain, a battle with an octopus, a giant squid, men held prisoners as the sub travels many, many leagues (distance leagues, not depth ones... maybe about twenty-thousand of them?), electrified hull plates to chase off attacking natives, and so much more that will be familiar, you might be forgiven for thinking this is simply a retitled "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
You are half right. It is an entirely different book but with an almost entirely same plot.
By today's standards this would be classified as plagiarism, pure and simple, but when written it got past the lawyers of the day. So, here you have an alternate (slightly) look at the same basic story as written, not by Verne, but by "Roy Rockwood."
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