Four Victorian novels rebuilt around the people the originals left in the margins
4Books
1,264Pages
113+Books authored
54+Ghostwritten
TL;DR: Victorian Reimagined is four Victorian adventure novels rebuilt around the people the originals left in the margins. It holds 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea told by the harpooner, The Mysterious Island through Gideon Spilett’s private notes, Eurydice, the confession of Tom Ayrton, and The Time Machine. Each book stands on its own, so you can read the Verne and Wells originals first or skip them.
The architecture holds. The population was wrong.
The method is the same every time. Reread a Victorian adventure novel as an adult, admire the plotting, then notice who’s standing on every page without being given a sentence that matters.
The same method runs through all four books: reread, admire, notice who was left out, rebuild.
Neb was in Verne’s Mysterious Island the whole time and never got to think about any of it. Ned Land counted days for a year and Verne handed the narration to the professor. Tom Ayrton got thirty pages and a heroic death. Wells wrote a class allegory and gave the Time Traveler nobody to talk to.
Four books, all self-contained. Read the originals first if you like. The bones are the same and the houses are different.
Who each Victorian Reimagined book puts at the center
Book
This version
Who the original sidelined
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The harpooner who counted the days
Ned Land; Verne handed the narration to the professor
The Mysterious Island
The private record of Gideon Spilett, correspondent
Neb, who never got to think about any of it
Eurydice
The confession of Tom Ayrton
Tom Ayrton, who got thirty pages and a heroic death
The Time Machine
Thirty stops, five hundred million years, and a machine that learns to talk
The Time Traveler, whom Wells gave nobody to talk to
Richard Lowe is a professional ghostwriter and author with 113+ books authored and 54+ ghostwritten. Before writing full time he spent 33 years in enterprise technology, including 20 years as Director of Computer Operations and Technical Services at Trader Joe's. He writes nonfiction, fiction and memoir, and works with executives and experts on books that build authority.
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