Jules Gabriel Verne (French pronunciation: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author in the world (after Agatha Christie). Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", a title sometimes shared with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells.
Jules Verne was born in Nantes, in France, to Pierre Verne, an attorney, and his wife, Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe. Jules spent his early years at home with his parents in the bustling harbor city of Nantes. The family spent summers in a country house just outside the city, in Brains on the banks of the Loire River. Here Jules and his brother Paul would often rent a boat for one franc a day. The sight of the many ships navigating the river sparked Jules's imagination, as he describes in the autobiographical short story "Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse". At the age of nine, Jules and Paul, of whom he was very fond, were sent to boarding school at the Saint Donatien College (Petit séminaire de Saint-Donatien). As a child, he developed a great interest in travel and exploration, a passion he showed as a writer of adventure stories and science fiction. His interest in writing often cost him progress in other subjects.
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Colin Arians stars as Micky McGee, the twelve year video game lover who hates to read books! Micky's reading tutor is pulling out her hair and Micky's mom is at her wits end. However, Micky has one admirer: Dr. Meanandevil! Meanandevil plots to eradicate all books from the public library and replace them with a single book depicting the dastardly deeds for which he is famous. To effect his diabolical plan he must locate one child who REFUSES TO READ! Will Micky join Dr. Meanandevil and eliminate thousands of wonderful books, or will he suddenly realize that books are the key to curiosity, adventure, mystery and magic? The plot thickens when Micky is magically transported to the public library where he meets four famous authors and a magical librarian!
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"1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel" is a whimsical adventure fantasy about a tired Jules Verne, fleeing from Paris and a bored wife, who joins Italian explorer Stradelli in an expedition on the Orinoco river. Along the way they pickup a young stranger- a woman disguised as a man, searching for her lost father.
Keywords: italian, jules-verne, river
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The Timekeeper has invented the world's first functional time machine and sends his sidekick, a flying robot named 9-Eye, on an excursion through time from the prehistoric age of the dinosaurs to fantastic cities of the future. Along the way 9-Eye kidnaps Jules Verne and hears Mozart with his first composition, watches Leonardo da Vinci paint a masterpiece, takes a bobsled ride down a mountain, and meets fellow inventor H.G. Wells.
Keywords: circle-vision, disney-park-attraction, jules-verne, leonardo-da-vinci, mona-lisa, multi-screen, robot, special-venue, theme-park-attraction, time-travel
The Timekeeper would love to take the time to take you on a trip through TIME!!!
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Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
Keywords: based-on-novel, cannon, civil-war, explosive, explosives-expert, foreign-language-adaptation, moon, sabotage, space, travel-to-the-moon
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