In our own time we have seen the most fantastic imagery of a Jules Verne come into actuality.

A model to other writers of hard science fiction, Clarke postulates advanced technologies without resorting to flawed engineering concepts ( as Jules Verne sometimes did ) or explanations grounded in incorrect science or engineering, or taking cues from trends in research and engineering ( which dates some of Larry Niven's novels ).

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.

Frankenstein draws heavily on a forged document feel, as do Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and many of the works of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H. G.

Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as " The Father of Science Fiction ".

His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called " The Father of Science Fiction ".

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

Additionally, inspired by the fiction of Jules Verne, Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion.

* Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days ( Travel 1988 ; Programme release 1989 ): travelling as closely as possible the path described in the famous Jules Verne story without using aircraft.

* 1905 – Jules Verne, French author ( b. 1828 )

Bush describes the memex and other visions of " As We May Think " as projections of technology known in the 1930s and 1940s in the spirit of Jules Verne or Arthur C. Clarke's 1945 proposal to orbit geosynchronous satellites for global telecommunication.

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 his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.

When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published the first work on space travel, which was inspired by the writings of Jules Verne

At the beginning of the 20th Century, there was a burst of scientific investigation into interplanetary travel, largely driven by the inspiration of fiction by writers such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

Then with the dawn of new technologies such as electricity, the telegraph, and new forms of powered transportation, writers including Jules Verne and H. G. Wells created a body of work that became popular across broad cross-sections of society.

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* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, and China Mieville.

Steampunk is influenced by, and often adopts the style of, the 19th-century scientific romances of Jules Verne, H. G.

Even though it was independent from the surface for a very short duration, the Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus reached worldwide celebrity after having been mentioned by Jules Verne in his adventure book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ; but Jules Verne wildly exaggerated its dive duration without external air supply.

H. G. Wells's ( 1866-1946 ) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like The Time Machine ( 1895 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians, and Wells is seen, along with Frenchman Jules Verne ( 1828-1905 ), as a major figure in the development of the science fiction genre.

Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea describes the Sargasso Sea and gives an account of its formation.

She will play Shanna, a woman that the network describes as being the " nemesis " of Jules.

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.

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

* In Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways, one of the chapters is set on Tristan da Cunha, and a brief history of the island is mentioned.

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

** 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 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.

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.

* 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.