There is something deeply strange about a novelist sitting down to write fiction and accidentally getting science right. Not ...

Jules Verne’s novels may have done as much as anything to spur man to new heights—literally. In 1862 Verne had much to do with a new society founded in France. Its founders were an aristocrat, a ...

Jules Verne, widely regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction, wrote some of literature's most famous adventure novels, including seminal works like Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty ...

Jules Verne's quote emphasizes that perceived impossible obstacles are often a reflection of internal willpower. The article ...

Fondly regarded as the father of science fiction, who foresaw a range of technological innovations long before their arrival, Jules Verne can probably be forgiven for failing to predict the internet.

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 ...

Ask an Englishman to name a French writer of science fiction and he is likely to answer: Jules Verne (ask him to name another French writer of science fiction and he'll probably go 'that guy who wrote ...

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In the statue erected above his grave in Amiens, in Picardy, Jules Verne resembles God, or Santa Claus. A man with a flowing white beard heaves aside the marble covering of his own tomb and reaches ...