Jules Verne is famous for his pioneering science-fiction novels, such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–70). Though he was not the earliest writer of modern science fiction—Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) gives her a stronger claim—he was valorized as the patron saint of the genre as it evolved in the 20th century.
What is Jules Verne famous for?
Where was science fiction invented?
The emergence of science fiction became most evident in the West, where the social transformations caused by the Industrial Revolution first led writers to extrapolate the future impact of technology. The clearest precursor, however, was the 17th-century author Cyrano de Bergerac, who wrote about a voyager’s trip to and expulsion from the Moon.
