A review by townblog
Island of Point Nemo by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès

5.0

I found this book by chance, judged it based on its cover (and title), and happily proclaim myself its ideal reader. This is a great mash-up of 19th century adventure novels - the French inspector and the consulting detective on a race around the world, in a world that combines opulent passenger trains, machine gun partisans, airships, sea monsters, and a bio-dome circus. It's all a dreamscape of a classics reader in a cigar factory, or an eReader virus that recombines works in the public domain, or a pastiche of Doyle, Poe, Dumas, Verne, and Lovecraft. Its Moby Dick as understood by P.T. Barnum, with iPads and profane sex acts and one really great brick joke. It's madness. I loved it.