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Podcast: What Mad Universe?!?
Episode: Chapter Seven: Conquest of the Monkey King!
Description: Jules Verne: writer of 20,000 Leagues Beneath The Sea and Around The World in 80 Days. One of the fathers of science fiction, author of over 60 novels, the second most frequently translated author after William Shakespeare, and a massive influence on the 20th Century. But no, this show isn't about him. Instead, it's about another, altogether forgotten book from Verne's time, The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul, a work that also prefigures modern culture in being a work of fanfiction based on Verne's characters. Whimsical, delightful and weird, Saturnin Farandoul sometimes feels like a modern "steampunk" book rather than an actual work...