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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 never visited Cincinnati, but he mentions Cincinnati—and particularly Cincinnati’s Observatory—in several books. Cincinnati, it can be said, loved Jules Verne and knew his works well.

A visionary who wrote about submarines when none existed in his 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne is often referred to as the father of science fiction. A visionary who ...

Ramona Koval: Hello and welcome to Books and Writing, on ABC Radio National. Ramona Koval with you for a thrilling journey into the visionary worlds of Jules Verne, as we celebrate 100 years since the ...

The Fabulous Jules Verne Film Festival will celebrate the novelist whose 19th century fiction became 20th century fact. The festival, organized as a successor event to the Godzilla & Friends Film ...