Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist and a pioneer of science fiction, author of the Extraordinary Voyages series.

Born in Nantes on 8 February 1828 and died 24 March 1905. Widely regarded as a founder of modern science fiction and author of classics such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and From the Earth to the Moon.

Three DeBaser reviews revisit Verne's best-known Extraordinary Voyages, praising his imagination while noting didactic excesses and plot flaws. Captain Nemo and the Nautilus remain enduring icons. Dalla Terra alla Luna is seen more as a period testimony than hard SF. Journey to the Center of the Earth is criticized for long technical digressions.

For:Readers of classic science fiction and 19th-century adventure novels.

 Nemo and his submarine are among the most epochal inventions of human imagination; Nemo is no one, he is the man of the waters.

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 But don’t take it as a science fiction novel, that would be asking too much of it.

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 It is the journey of the three protagonists - the grandfather Professor, an eminent academic, the nephew Axel, who is the narrator, and the imperturbable Icelandic guide Hans, to whom all our sympathies must go - among the three.

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