Jules Verne

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Jules Verne

  Jules Verne (b. 1828, ??city??); d. 1905, in ??city??)


Stuff

In general Verne is credited as "the father of SF", in reality
they both approached the subject scientifically. Verne thought
that Wells' flights of fancy (time travel esp) to be far fetched.
Verne prided himself that his novels were of a speculative and
near-to-happeing nature. BOTH he and H.G. were well versed in 
the on-going events in science and technology of the time.

Of course this isn't to say that Jules wasn't above "stretching
a point". If the "Earth to Moon" rocket *were* launched by a 
single BOOM - everthing inside would be subject to an almost
atom-falttening 20 G's or so - don't quote me on the num's).

Oddly enough, Tsilikovski had already worked out the mechanics
of the multi-staged rocket, but being in Tsarist Russia such
non-sense wasn't worth publishing. Prob similar to the fate
of mathematician Lobochevsky who was dismissed from his teaching
post for reasons unknown (other than challening Euclid's 5th
postulate! ;)


Major Works

"Five Weeks in a Balloon" (1863) on of Verne's first forays
                                 into scientifically-based
romance adventures.