Jules Verne

Considered one of the first writers of science fiction, the French novelist Jules Verne wrote highly popular adventure stories that have at times turned out to be prophetic. In his 19th-century works, Verne’s fertile imagination accurately predicted some of the technology seen in the world today, including spacecraft, guided missiles, aircraft, and submarines. In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), one of his most famous books, Verne told the story of a crazed submarine commander, Captain Nemo, who piloted his vessel beneath the world’s seas. In other works, Verne guided his readers to space and the far reaches of earth, as in Phileas Fogg’s journey around the world to win a wager in Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

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