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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Verne, Jules
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When Hugo Gernsback wanted to define "scientifiction" in the very first issue of Amazing, he called it the "Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells type of story". It puts Verne right at the core of science fiction, a place that he still holds.From the appearance of his very first novel right up to his death, Verne was easily one of the most popular and successful writers in Europe, acclaimed in particular for his "Voyages extraordinaire", carefully researched stories that took his adventurers into strange and dramatic places, usually pushing at the technological possibilities of the time. From outer space to the centre of the world, from extraordinary flying machines to even more extraordinary submarines, he took us to places we'd never seen before and made it all convincing and exciting. One of his greatest successes explored an underwater world that no-one had seen before.Hunting what is rumoured to be a giant sea monster, Professor Aronnax and his companions are surprised to find themselves taken aboard a submarine of incredibly advanced, not to say luxurious, design. Here they meet the enigmatic Captain Nemo, the archetypal Jules Verne figure, a great scientist who is also a bold adventurer and driven by a thirst for revenge. Aboard the Nautilus they travel right around the world, seeing everything from coral reefs to Antarctic ice shelves, from sunken vessels to the Transatlantic cable.Okay, Verne's books are more journey than plot, but the journeys are always marvellous, and, because he took such pains to get everything right according to the scientific knowledge of the day, absolutely convincing. Verne is one of a very small handful of writers about whom we can safely say that, without them there would be no science fiction. He's not always been well served by his English translators (which is one reason they have often been presented as books for children), but even so they have gripped generation after generation, and more than a few later writers owe their inspiration to Verne.
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