And, in order to come to grips with it and make it congruent with Verne’s oeuvre as a whole, some European scholars have recently begun to attribute it to the author’s son, Michel Jules Verne. But ...

Simon Lake (1866-1945), submarine designer Simon Lake was a US naval architect who designed some of the first submarines for the US Navy. He said he was indebted to Jules Verne, in particular ...