In fact, Verne lists some 70 inventors who contributed to his concept of a flying machine. He gives credit to those who provided the most direct inspiration: Nadar, Cossus, de la Landelle and ...

Verne - prolific author, prophet, genius, the "father of science fiction", the first and greatest mythmaker of the machine age - was buried in the cemetery de la Madeleine in Amiens 100 years ago ...

4. The author’s prophecies are self-fulfilling. This is what most often occurs with Jules Verne. He didn’t so much predict the future as to cause it to come true.

Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires, the vast corpus of novels written over a forty-two year period from 1863 to 1905, are quintessentially a document about a changing world and the new ...

Arthur B. Evans The "New" Jules Verne The publication in France of a "lost" Jules Verne novel called Paris au XXe siècle1 (Paris in the 20th Century, untranslated as of this writing) has caused quite ...

Florida Time starts off the second half of 2019 with one of the seminal moments in the history of civilization. That moment starts in Florida and ends 238,900 miles away on the moon.

A century after Jules Verne's death, science fiction writers still follow in the Frenchman's footsteps. But it has emerged that Scotland provided him with much of his inspiration. He came here for the ...