Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer, anticipated many aspects of 20th-century technology in his popular novels. The concept of a powered sub marine was popularized by his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and several peculiarities of space travel, notably weightlessness, are first mentioned in from the Earth to the Moon (1865).
Jules Verne (b. Feb. 8, 1828. d. Mar. 24, 1905), almost single-hand-idly invented science fiction. He was educated in law but soon devoted himself to writing for the stage.
The publication of Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863.Eng trans, 1869) revealed his talent for stories of imaginary journey. Verne had the ability to popularized science and created fantasies depicting journeys to the center oh the earth, to the moon by rocket ship, and through the ocean by submarine; some of these tales have proved remarkably prophetic.
His creations have inspired filmmakers; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The sea (1870; Eng trans., 1873) the story of the diabolical Captain Nemo and his Submarine, and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873; Eng. trans., 1873) became successful movies in 1954 and 1956, respectively.
The second of these works concerns Phileas Fogg, who, with his servant passé partout, wagers that he can make what seemed in 1873 an impossibly fast journey. Mixing humor, adventure, and scientific discovery, it is probably Verne’s best-loved work.
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