Splashdown Spaceship
Photograph by Bates Littlehales, National Geographic
In From the Earth to the Moon, Verne imagined a spacecraft landing in the ocean and floating—just like this Mercury capsule.
There were other 19th-century French authors who weaved current technologies into their works, but Verne is remembered today because he also happened to be a great storyteller, MIT's Williams said.
"He worked 20 years in a theater," she said. "His characters are simple and they do neat things ... [Verne's] genius is combining deep story lines with up-to-date things and this great excitement about science and invention."
Published February 8, 2011
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