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.

Jules Verne

* 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.

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 ).

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.

" 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.

From this time, throughout Jules Grévy's presidency, he became widely known as a political critic and destroyer of ministries ( le Tombeur de ministères ) who avoided taking office himself.

Jules Verne also took up the theme of lunar visits in his books, From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon.

By his own account and that of many others, around the age of 11 years old, Oberth became fascinated with the field in which he was to make his mark through reading the writings of Jules Verne, especially From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, re-reading them to the point of memorization.

From then on, at fairly regular intervals, either alone or in collaboration with other writers — Jules Sandeau, Eugène Marin Labiche, Édouard Foussier — he produced plays such as Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 )-which was regarded as an attack on the clerical party in France, and was surely brought out by the direct intervention of the emperor.

* From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon (, 1865 ) is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre.

The 44-minute programme followed Tim Delaney and his team in bringing the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne to life.

* From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, reviewed by Ted Gioia ( Conceptual Fiction )

* The Omnibus Jules Verne ( 4-Books-In-1: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Blockade Runners, From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It ).

From his second marriage to Maria-Charlotte, Jules de Polignac had fathered seven children, including the noted mathematician Prince Alphonse de Polignac, inventor of the theory of twin primes ; Prince Ludovic de Polignac, a lieutenant-colonel in the French Army who participated in the colonization of Algeria ; Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, a major-general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and Prince Edmond de Polignac, a composer, musical theorist and proponent of the octatonic scale.

From 1881 to 1883 he was in Paris where he met Jules Bastien-Lepage, who encouraged him to paint en plein air.

The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, the famous Jules Verne science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon.

* Jules Supervielle, a writer of Basque descent, incorporated Hispanic vistas and fantasy themes in his novel L ' Enfant de la Haute Mer Child From The High Sea ( 1931 ).

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.

The firing of a space gun in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon

Perhaps the most famous representation of a space gun is Jules Verne's novel, From the Earth to the Moon ( made into a silent movie called Le Voyage dans la Lune ), in which astronauts fly to the moon aboard a ship launched from a cannon.

From left to right: Einstein ( Back to the Future ) | Einstein, Marty McFly | Marty, Emmett Brown | Doc, Minor characters in Back to the Future films # Verne Brown | Verne, Clara Clayton | Clara and Minor characters in Back to the Future films # Jules Brown | Jules.

From 1821-1829 he was professor of geology at the Athenaeum at Paris, and he took a leading part with Ami Boue, Gérard Paul Deshayes and Jules Desnoyers in the founding of the Société géologique de France ( 1830 ).

* From the Earth to the Moon ( 1865 ) by Jules Verne in which a projectile is launched from Florida and lands in the Pacific Ocean, not unlike the Apollo Program.