Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French writer and futurist. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells. Verne is credited with helping inspire the steampunk genre, a literary and social movement that glamorizes science fiction based on 19th-century technology.

His notable works include:
 * Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) - the innovation was the concept of a prehistoric realm still existing in the present-day world. This subterranean fiction inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel The Lost World.
 * From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon (1865). Verne attempted to do some calculations for a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing and some of his figures are remarkably accurate.
 * Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) - its depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, since it accurately describes many features of today's submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels.
 * Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) - at the time, an unheard-of circumnavigation of the world in 80 days