“I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.”

French novelist, poet, and playwright

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. He wrote in the nineteenth century and became known for stories that helped define early science fiction. Verne is remembered above all for his imaginative fiction, which often linked adventure with scientific possibility. His work has remained widely read, and he is closely associated with a body of writing that looks ahead to future inventions and travels.