Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science fiction genre. Verne was noted for writing about space, air, and underwater travel long before they were possible, let alone commonplace.

Partial list of works

• Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1863)
• Paris au XXe siècle (Paris in the 20th Century 1863, not published until 1994)
• Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864)
• De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865)
• Les enfants du Capitaine Grant (In Search of the Castaways, 1867-1868)
• Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1870)
• Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours (Around the World in Eighty Days, 1872)
• L'île mystérieuse (Mysterious Island, 1874)
• Michel Strogoff (Michael Strogoff, 1876)
• Les Indes noires (1877)
• Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine (Tribulations of a Chinaman in China, 1879)
• Le rayon vert (The Green Ray, 1882)
• Mathias Sandorf (1885)
• Robur le conquérant (Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds, 1886)
• Deux ans de vacances (1888)
• L'île à hélice (Propeller Island, 1895)
• Le beau Danube jaune (1901)
• Le village aérien (1901)