tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20715926091420549922024-09-24T22:24:35.288-07:00Rubelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14774694289632336729noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071592609142054992.post-79725625477204704362011-02-08T00:08:00.000-08:002011-02-08T00:12:19.637-08:00<p><b>Jules Gabriel Verne</b> was a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">French</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author" title="Author">author</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a> who pioneered the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science-fiction</a> genre. He is best known for novels such as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea" title="Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea">Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</a></i> (1870), <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth" title="A Journey to the Center of the Earth">A Journey to the Center of the Earth</a></i> (1864), and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days" title="Around the World in Eighty Days">Around the World in Eighty Days</a></i> (1873). Verne wrote about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space" title="Outer space">space</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft" title="Aircraft">air</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">underwater</a> travel before air travel and practical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarines" title="Submarines" class="mw-redirect">submarines</a> were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated individual author in the world, according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Translationum" title="Index Translationum">Index Translationum</a>. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Gernsback" title="Hugo Gernsback">Hugo Gernsback</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne#cite_note-0"><span></span></a></sup></p>Rubelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14774694289632336729noreply@blogger.com0