This opinion has been reinforced by the fact that such SF writers of the early 20th century as Paul d'Ivoi ... 37) to the most recent monograph by Henri Baudin, La Science-fiction (Paris 1971), all ...

During the past three years, six significant studies have conclusively placed Jules Verne among those writers whose works mark a turn not only in the history of utopian and technologico-adventurous SF ...

When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book Robur the Conqueror, had moved from fiction to reality.Just two years earlier, the ...

Nowhere is that age evoked with more vigour than in the adventure novels of 19th-century French ... and writers like him. Radio 4's To the Ends of the Earth season begins with Jules Verne's ...