![]() After studying at the lycée, then to Paris for law, he began writing verse for operettas with his friend and composer, Aristide Hignard. ![]() Rumored to have stowed away on a ship bound for the West Indies, his father was waiting for him at the next port, cutting the young Verne's adventures short. We feature his work in our collection of Dystopian Stories.Īs a child in Nantes, France, he developed a great interest in travel and exploration, tooling around in the harbor on a boat with his brother. Anointed the "Father of Science Fiction" along with Hugo Gernsback and H. ![]() His most famous novels include: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth, (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days, (1873). Verne is the second most translated author in the world, behind Agatha Christie. He wrote a number of intriguing Dystopian Stories, where technology went bad. Pen Name: Born: FebruDied: March 24, 1905īorn in 1828, Jules Verne was a French author who pioneered the Science Fiction genre, describing fantastic technologies that hadn't been invented yet. ![]()
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