From the depths of the ocean to the center of the Earth, Jules Verne's impact on science fiction remains massive today.
It tries to reveal the meaning of Verne's book in the context of the changes of modern times.
Dropping off to sleep, he begins to dream. The wall behind him transforms into a screen, with a portrait of Jules Verne. The boy imagines the starry night sky, with comets shooting by. The gondola ...
When this movie is made in 1956, one could circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. When Jules Verne wrote the ... folly to do in eighty days in current times, that is except ...
When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book "Robur the Conqueror," had moved from fiction to reality. Just two years earlier, the ...