Jules Verne, Author, Sydney Kravitz, Translator, Arthur B. Evans, Editor Wesleyan University Press $40 (728p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6475-7 The second title in Wesleyan's new Early Classics of Science ...

There ought to be a law stipulating that well-meaning relatives may not touch the manuscripts left by their loved ones. It traumatizes a book to have its ending Disneyfied, its time period altered by ...

All Jules Verne's books and novels take place in his own days and times. None of them is actually in the future, none of them can be called science fiction, apart from one novel which is called Paris ...

Widely considered to be the "Father of Science Fiction," the famed French poet, novelist, and playwright known as Jules Verne celebrates what would have been his 193rd birthday this year. Born Feb. 8, ...

Jules Verne never visited Cincinnati, but he mentions Cincinnati—and particularly Cincinnati’s Observatory—in several books. Cincinnati, it can be said, loved Jules Verne and knew his works well.

Renowned French novelist Jules Verne of the late-19th century once wrote: “(M)y task is to paint the whole earth, the entire world, in novel form, by imagining adventures …” As vacation begins, ...

I moved on to Verne’s scientific romances and wager novels, and am still discovering new ones, as he was very prolific. I don’t know why I liked his adventures so much as they are very male, set in a ...

Few people some 20 years ago, near the start of the administration of George Bush Sr. — when cyberpunk was still a fresh notion, when there existed only three “Star Wars” films, all good, and when the ...

Jules Verne has inspired numerous movies and made-for-TV movies (to say nothing of the countless sci-fi storytellers who have followed in his footsteps), but 2021's "Around The World In 80 Days" is ...