Jules Verne (1828–1905), the world’s most translated author, wrote numerous classics of adventure and science fiction, includingThe Meteor Hunt, Light at the End of the World, The Golden Volcano, andMagellania, which are all available from the University of Nebraska Press. Marie-Therese Noiset is a professor emerita of French and translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has also translatedCaught in the Storm by Seydou Badian. Volker Dehs is a German literary critic and leading Jules Verne specialist and biographer.