![]() But when Gabriel’s sister suddenly appears with proof of previously undiscovered sea creatures-giant beasts inhabiting wrecked war planes and ships-Gabriel and his new friends must face their biggest and most dangerous mission ever! But with his older sister off following in their ancestor’s footsteps, sinking whalers and running away from vengeful navies, Gabriel decides it’s time to forge his own path, and use his Nemotech legacy for good.Īrmed only with his wits, his friends, and his Nemotech submarine, Gabriel embarks on a series of daring rescues and exciting undersea battles. A descendant of the famous Captain Nemo, he spent the first years of his life living in obscurity, isolated in his parents’ peaceful underwater research lab. Gabriel Nemo is not your typical 12-year-old. Ironically, fiction fans who aren’t that familiar with Jules Verne might enjoy Captain Nemo the most – they’ll be surprised by the great adventures and will marvel at their scope.Armed with his wits, his friends, and his Nemotech submarine, a twelve-year-old descendant of Jules Verne’s famous antihero is determined to help make the ocean a safer place one adventure at a time in Jason Henderson's Young Captain Nemo, first in a new middle-grade series. I’m also pretty sure that Jules Verne fans will give the book ago and some will like and other, like me, bristle at the treatment of Verne even though it’s a work of fiction. Anderson fans will like this book – many of them will like it more than I did. It’s just that the only prism for those relationships we have to look through is the adventures Nemo manages to find himself in. In some ways you might say the book should be about the adventures – about the fantastic journeys – but it’s actually about the people and the relationships they have. It mattered to me to find out which of the fictional or historical characters would land on the good side of the tracks or the bad. It mattered tome to find out how some of the relationships worked out. You may not like them all but they all seem real. The reason I kept on turning the pages is that Anderson creates believable characters. It’s not as if I put the book down and moved on to something else to read – and my to-read pile is fat and tempting. I did keep turning the pages on Captain Nemo. It’s that conflict that is ultimately responsible for the portrayal of Nemo’s death. He has to steal Nemo’s adventures for himself, re-write them and publish them via a marketer-cum-publisher. The suggestion in the book is that Verne, although a hard worker, has neither the get up and go to have his own adventures nor the imagination to be a great writer. Perhaps that’s why Captain Nemo does not score A+ with me. I rather like Jules Verne’s novels well, the translations I’ve read – but I certainly like his imagination. ![]() I enjoyed Nemo washing up on the desert island, making the most of it and the remarkable events leading up to his escape. ![]() It’s just a matter of watching how the elements of these books come into play in the book and whether you enjoyed the interweaving or not. We may track him from boy to man but if you’ve read any of Jules Verne – or perhaps just seen some of the movies for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Around the World in 80 Days – then you’ll know what happens next. You already know the adventures Nemo has. They both dream of adventures but when they try and escape the humdrum of Paris and Verne is yanked off the ship by his father that it is only Nemo that gets to go. ![]() Imagine that Nemo was a real person – the boy of a Parisian ship builder and that Jules Verne is his friend. The book is a mashup of fact, fiction and re-fiction. Captain Nemo is not one of my favourites. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for this blogger. Geek Native readers may recall from our interview with the writer that Captain Nemo is one of his favourite efforts. Kevin J Anderson is a prolific author who’s written a huge number of great books.
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