Jules Verne, a renowned French writer, captivates audiences with both accurate and inaccurate predictions. How has his work influenced the worlds of science and literature? Jules Verne ...

Simon Lake (1866-1945), submarine designer Simon Lake was a US naval architect who designed some of the first submarines for ...

Jules Verne, the French science fiction pioneer ... all of which figure in his later books. Verne was a fierce individualist who had come of age during the political upheavals of 1848, when ...

29. An English translation of Journey through the Impossible was published by Prometheus Books in 2003 (<www.prometheusbooks.com>). Dumas, Olivier, Piero Gondolo della Riva, and Volker Dehs, eds.

As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...

17. Inspired by the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Nautilus tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo, an Indian prince robbed of his birthright and family.

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 to an historical study but will also consider some ...

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 ...

Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible. Sundays at 8/7c Now Through February 20 Set sail in Jules Verne’s iconic hot air balloon with Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix in a ...