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Propeller Island

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Propeller Island

De: Jules Verne
Narrado por: AI Voice Charles Owen
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Standard Island is a marvel: a constructed floating island, powered by enormous propellers, carrying a city of ten thousand across the Pacific in conditions of unprecedented luxury. Its residents — the wealthiest Americans, who have paid fortunes for the privilege — travel the world's most beautiful latitudes without ever being inconvenienced by them. They have parks and boulevards, perfect weather, and their own resident string quartet: four French musicians who missed their connecting ship and found themselves, somewhat to their bewilderment, guests of the richest floating community on earth.

Jules Verne published Propeller Island in 1895, and it is not the Verne of optimistic early adventure. It is the Verne of thirty years' accumulated observation of what science and capitalism were actually building together — a satirist's Verne, precise and cold-eyed, watching a society that has eliminated all friction discover that friction was the only thing holding it together. The island's two great families, the Tankerdons and the Coverleys, compete for supremacy with the focused energy of people who have never needed to cooperate with anyone, and their rivalry gradually splits the island — ideologically, politically, and finally physically — into two halves driving in opposite directions.

The ending is one of the most formally exact in Verne's work: a metaphor made literal, an argument completed as spectacle. A society built entirely on private competition finds, at the moment it most needs collective action, that it has no idea how to perform one.

Visionary, satirical, and more relevant than it has any right to be — one of the most underrated novels in the Voyages extraordinaires. Ciencia ficción
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