I've got another selection from project Gutenberg, though to be honest I haven't read the book. I read the "Great Illustrated Classics" version when I was 7 or 8. I can also vaguely recall an attraction related to a film adaptation when I visited Disney World with my family. But I digress; simply having a position here on SFQ does not give me the right to bore you all to death with vague recollections from my childhood. I give you by way of association: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Nothing quite like a giant squid to remind one of the Victorian Era, or at least H. P. Lovecraft. I came across Jules Verne again in reading Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. #1, a work that uses classic characters from the Victorian Period in Moore's story. Imagine a sort of Justice League circa 1890 serving the British Empire and you've got the basic idea. I'm only a few issues into the trade paperback but I'm already enjoying it immensely. If you've read classic SF or Horror from the late 19th Century and early 20th you'll be awash in the pleasant associations. If for instance, you've read Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" you'll recognize the murders alluded as well as the eponymous location in Moore's book. (You can grab that and other Poe stories here in Volume 1 of Project Gutenberg's collection of his stories.) Moore's work is some of the best I've come across in Graphic Novels, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is (if anything) a reminder of some of the classics.