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.

Nice also has numerous museums of all kinds: Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse ( arenas of Cimiez containing Roman ruins ), Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Musée international d ' Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky, Musée Terra-Amata, Museum of Asian Art, Musée d ' art moderne et d ' art contemporain which devotes much space to the well-known École of Nice ”), Museum of Natural History, Musée Masséna, Naval Museum and Galerie des Ponchettes.

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

Jules Fisher has won the most lighting design awards, also eight.

Lundwall was also the editor of the science fiction magazine Jules Verne-Magasinet between 1972 and 2009 and has been active in fandom, for instance he organised conventions in Stockholm in 1961, 1963, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1979.

In honour of his brother and collaborator, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt ( 1830 – 1870 ), the académie has awarded the Prix Goncourt every December since 1903.

It has numerous bourgeois houses and townhouses, such as Jules Verne's house, in architectural styles of the period, including neoclassical and neogothic.

Honorary citizenship has been bestowed upon Jules Penninckx, Armand Preud ' homme, cyclist Raymond Impanis, singer Will Tura, athlete Kim Gevaert and Stef Maginelle.

In his notes to modern editions of some of Jules Verne's worksWilliam Butcher has suggested that one of Verne's most famous characters, Captain Nemo, is based on Gustave Flourens.

The Voice has received three Pulitzer Prizes, in 1981 ( Teresa Carpenter ), 1986 ( Jules Feiffer ) and 2000 ( Mark Schoofs ).

The concept of an MTV show titled Unplugged drawing on this phenomenon has been attributed to producers Robert Small and Jim Burns together with songwriter Jules Shear, who hosted the first 13 episodes.

Lower Normandy has also been the home of many well-known French authors, including Guy de Maupassant, Marcel Proust, Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly.

The entire series of stories has been reprinted in a three volume set called The Complete Adventures of Jules de Grandin.

The term originated in the 1850s to describe both fiction and elements of scientific writing, but has since come to refer to the science fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, primarily that of Jules Verne, H. G.

It has been suggested that if men ' share a sense of brotherhood and they allow a woman in to their relationship, an isosceles triangle is created ' automatically, as ' in Truffaut's film Jules et Jim '.

When the team travels to Hamburg, Jess and Joe's relationship develops ; at the end of the night the two are about to kiss when Jules ( who also has a crush on Joe ) interrupts them, souring Jess and Jules ' friendship.

Jules tells her parents immediately, but Jess has trouble telling hers.

* The 1989 film I Want to Go Home ( Je Veux Rentrer a la Maison, screenplay by Jules Feiffer ) has a scene where the main character, a retired cartoonist played by Adolph Green, makes an unexpectedly emotional appeal for Al Capp and his legacy.

Rabbi Jules Harlow, together with his wife, Navah, has played a paramount role in the cause of the Bnei Anusim ( descendents of crypto-Jews ) in Lisbon, Portugal.

One author who has explored expressions of the rising mass intelligentsia is British writer Jules Evans.

Iorga the European scholar has drawn comparisons with figures such as Voltaire, Jules Michelet, Leopold von Ranke and Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz.

He has starred in Québécois films La Nuit de Noces and Karmina 2, and on the Secret Adventures of Jules Verne television series, on the Sci Fi Channel ( United States ).

Her sole North American TV series to date has been The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne in which she played Rebecca Fogg.

He has created a workshop in the Aurora in which he can build almost any device Jules Verne can dream up, from a stun grenade to a magnetometer.