书名：The Mysterious Island 神秘岛
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数510
作者：Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2004
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451529411
商品尺寸：10.7 x 3.2 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：600 （以实物为准）

The Mysterious Island《神秘岛》是法国科幻小说家儒勒·凡尔纳所著的三部曲之一。
该书叙述了在美国南北战争时期，几个被困在南军中的北方人，中途被风暴吹落在太平洋中的一个荒岛上，他们团结互助，建立起幸福的生活；直到格兰特船长的儿子罗伯尔所指挥的“邓肯号”经过那里时，才把他们搭救；回到美国之后，这几个“岛民”又重新开始他们在岛上建立的事业。整部小说情节波澜起伏，人物栩栩如生，在惊心动魄的故事中融合着广博的科学知识，非常值得科幻小说爱好者阅读！
Armed with little more thantheircourage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond , Virginia—but not by steamboat, by train, or even on foot. Instead, these desperate but resourceful souls construct a hot-air balloon and climb aboard—with no idea if they will ever see civilization again. Swept off course by a raging storm, they land on the shores of an uncharted island.
Thus begins a classic fable of men coming face-to face with the forces of nature, which are by turns harsh and generous, In these conditions, an engineer, his faithful servant, a journalist, a sailor, and a boy of fifteen must undertake the huge, if not impossible, task of reconstructing the civilization they left behind. Filled with action,The Mysterious Island has gripped countless readers with its intrigue and knuckle-whitening suspense,and continues to compel us today.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRUCE STERLING
AND AN AFTERWORD BY ISAAC ASIMOV
Review
“The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived.” —Arthur C. Clarke
“Particularly clever.” —Isaac Asimov

With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they’ll ever see civilization again-especially when they’re swept off by a raging storm to the shores of an uncharted island. 

Jules Verne(1828-1905) was the author of innumerable adventurestories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories,in addition toThe Mysterious Island (1874) ,include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863),A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864); A Trip to the Moon (1865); Around the World in Eighty Days (1872); and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80).
Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, has written eight science fiction novels and three short storycollections. He edited the anthology Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement, and wrote the non-fiction booksThe Hacker Crackdown: Lawand Disorderon The Electronic Frontier (1992) and Tomorrow Now:Envisioningthe Next Fifty Years (2003). A contributing editor of Wired magazine, he also writes a Web log and runs a Web site and Internet mailing list on the topics of environmental activism and postindustrial design.
Isaac Asimovwas the author of more than for hundred books, including three Hugo Award winners and numerous bestsellers, as well as countless stories and scientific essays. Award the honor of Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1985, he is the man who coined the words robotics, positronic, and psychohistory. 

“Are we rising again?” “No. On the contrary.” “Are we descending?” “Worse than that, captain! we are falling!” “For Heaven’s sake heave out the ballast!” “There! The last sack is empty!” “Does the balloon rise?” “No!” “I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us!” “Overboard with every weight!... everything!”
Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o’clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year. The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel. Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest. It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the 25th of October, 1810, the other on the 26th of July, 1825.