Jules Verne, author of such works as *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea* and *Around the World in Eighty Days* , is recognized as one of the masters of the golden age of science fiction. In *The Master of the World* , a series of catastrophes strike the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States, and an intrepid investigator postulates that they might all be connected to a mysterious mad scientist who is sequestered in a compound in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Jules Verne, author of such works as *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea* and *Around the World in Eighty Days* , is recognized as one of the masters of the golden age of science fiction. In *The Master of the World* , a series of catastrophes strike the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States, and an intrepid investigator postulates that they might all be connected to a mysterious mad scientist who is sequestered in a compound in the Blue Ridge Mountains.