French author Jules Verne gave us some astoundingly accurate predictions of future technological advances. His stories spurred many scientists and inventors on to make his visions a reality.When ...

And, in order to come to grips with it and make it congruent with Verne’s oeuvre as a whole, some European scholars have recently begun to attribute it to the author’s son, Michel Jules Verne. But ...

Anyone who’s had the privilege of reading Jules Verne’s ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ or ‘The Mysterious Island’ as a child will remember that the hero of these fascinating books – the mysterious ...

As author Diana Wynne Jones writes in her introduction ... Radio 4's To the Ends of the Earth season begins with Jules Verne's classic Journey to the Centre of the Earth which is available to ...

The purpose of this essay is to describe the development of French science fiction in the 19th century before Jules Verne. 1 It will not be confined ... different from the empirical society around the ...

George Roux (1850–1929) was a French artist renowned for his illustrations of Jules Verne’s science-fiction novels ... Roux's illustrations played a crucial role in popularizing Verne’s books, ...