Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

* Cyrus Smith, the leading character in Jules Verne's novel Mysterious Island

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Near the end of the decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).

* Lincoln Island, a fictional island in Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island

Instead of Flip or the Princess, Nemo meets Zorro, Alice and Jules Verne's Nautilus ( which was led by Captain Nemo ).

" Indeed, anyone who stops to consider the performance consequences of trail following-let alone link-directed pointer-chasing-over a microfilm library of near universal scope should quickly come to the conclusion that microfilm is no more appropriate a technology for implementing AWMT's vision than Jules Verne's cannon is an appropriate technology for sending astronauts to the Moon.

* Captain Nemo, captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island ( 1870 )

Visitors can peek inside port windows and see mannequins of Edison and Eiffel ( and Eiffel's daughter, posed with the phonograph ), the tableau commemorating their fabled meeting of September 10, 1899 in which, over cigars and cognac, they discussed possible joint projects and their participation in Jules Verne's " smoking club " for avowed futurists, dubbed Plus Ultra.

Jules Verne's Paris in the Twentieth Century ( 1863 ) includes suspended pneumatic tube trains that stretch across the oceans.

In Michel & Jules Verne's The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 ( 1889 ) submarine tubes carry people faster than aero-trains and the Society for Supplying Food to the Home allows subscribers to receive meals pneumatically.

The idea surfaces again in Jules Verne's The Begum's Fortune ( 1879 ).

* In Jules Verne's novel 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Nautilus travels through an underwater passage beneath the Suez Canal.

The story may have later been an inspiration for Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

** The first nuclear-powered submarine, the, logs its 60, 000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel " 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ".

* Jules Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, is published.

The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.

* Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius ( 2002 ) ( a fictional life of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo )

He is also name-checked in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon as someone who claimed to have seen lunar inhabitants through his telescope, though that particular fact is merely part of Verne's fiction.

Hagbard has parallels to Jules Verne's character, Captain Nemo.

" His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune ( 1902 ), a whimsical parody of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and animation, and also incorporated extensive miniature and matte painting work.

* fictitious, such as Jules Verne's character Captain Nemo

In Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the travelers in Captain Nemo's fictional submarine Nautilus encounter various sirenians during their journey.

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Poe's work also influenced science fiction, notably Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery, also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields.

The Heimskringla is referenced in the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The hollow interior of the Earth seen in Journey to Middle Earth by The Asylum bears some similarity to Pellucidar, although the film was intended as a film adaptation of a novel by Jules Verne.

( In the original Jules Verne novel, Thuggee are mentioned only briefly, and not directly in connection with this princess.

The centrality of a father in this novel matches Balzac's own position – not only as mentor to his troubled young secretary, Jules Sandeau, but also the fact that he had ( most likely ) fathered a child, Marie-Caroline, with his otherwise-married lover, Maria Du Fresnay.

Bazaar in Samarkand, illustration by Léon Benett for a Jules Verne novel, reflecting the city's exotic image for 19th-century Europeans

On 18 January 1974, Wakeman performed Journey to the Centre of the Earth, a forty-minute piece based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.

* Clovis Dardentor, 1896 fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne

* Philip José Farmer's Science Fiction / Steampunk parallel novel The Other Log of Phileas Fogg asserts that Moriarty and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo were one and the same person.

The Red Branch warriors, including Cúchulainn and the sons of Usnech, appear as main characters in The Swan Maiden ( 2009 ), a novel by Jules Watson about the life of Deirdre The Raven Queen tells more of the story, mainly Maeve's view.

Three years before writing his novel, Jules Verne also studied a model of the newly developed French Navy submarine Plongeur at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, which inspired him for his definition of the Nautilus.

Morganton is the setting for the Jules Verne novel The Master of the World.

In 1888, Mirbeau published L ' Abbé Jules ( Abbé Jules ), the first pre-Freudian novel written under the influence of Dostoyevsky to appear in French literature ; the text featured two main characters: l ' abbé Jules and Father Pamphile.

* In Search of the Castaways ( originally titled The Children of Captain Grant ), a novel by Jules Verne

* Jules Verne-In Search of the Castaways

Jules Cotard served as the real life model for the character of Dr. Cottard in the Marcel Proust novel In Search of Lost Time.

In his novel In Search of the Castaways ( 1867 ), Jules Verne wrote, " Araucania is populated by the Mapuche, the native Chilean race extolled in verse by the poet Ercilla ".

A chapter of In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne is set in its bay.

Jules Verne published Les enfants du Capitaine Grant ( In Search of the Castaways ) 1867 – 1868 and Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ( Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ) in 1870.

* Tom Ayrton, character in Jules Verne's novels In Search of the Castaways and The Mysterious Island

The island appears in Jules Verne's novels In Search of the Castaways and The Mysterious Island.

Jules Romains's 27 volume novel Les Hommes de bonne volonté ( 1932 – 1946 ), Roger Martin du Gard's eight-part novel cycle Les Thibault ( 1922 – 1940 ), and Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time, 1913 – 1927 ) expanded on the roman-fleuve model.