Discover who Jules Verne was. Learn when he was born, and why he is called the father of science fiction, his books, his most famous novel, and his lasting global influence.

Jules Verne, Author, Sydney Kravitz, Translator, Arthur B. Evans, Editor Wesleyan University Press $40 (728p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6475-7 The second title in Wesleyan's new Early Classics of Science ...

Jules Verne is a wonderful writer whose English translations are riven with inaccuracies and prejudice. Let's agitate for a full reappraisal of his work. I'd always liked reading Jules Verne and I've ...

Widely considered to be the "Father of Science Fiction," the famed French poet, novelist, and playwright known as Jules Verne celebrates what would have been his 193rd birthday this year. Born Feb. 8, ...

Ask an Englishman to name a French writer of science fiction and he is likely to answer: Jules Verne (ask him to name another French writer of science fiction and he'll probably go 'that guy who wrote ...

There ought to be a law stipulating that well-meaning relatives may not touch the manuscripts left by their loved ones. It traumatizes a book to have its ending Disneyfied, its time period altered by ...

Jules Verne's heroes still live on the screen and the stage and on the page in 148 languages and in the imagination of young hearts and of the young at heart. So, 100 years after his death, Jules ...

PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. — Someone has returned a book to a New Jersey library 50 years after it was taken out. The Phillipsburg Free Public Library says its copy of Jules Verne’s “Dropped From The Clouds” ...

Few people some 20 years ago, near the start of the administration of George Bush Sr. — when cyberpunk was still a fresh notion, when there existed only three “Star Wars” films, all good, and when the ...