The publication in France of a "lost" Jules Verne novel called Paris au XXe siècle 1 (Paris in the 20th Century, untranslated as of this writing) has caused quite a stir in the media during the past ...

Jules Verne, the French science fiction pioneer ... Published in 1994 as Paris in the 20th Century, the work is not great literature—a New York Times critic called its plot "rudimentary ...

Aubry's "Le roman moderne d'hypothèse scientifique" (La Revue des Idées, 1906 No. 37) to the latest monograph by Henri Baudin, La science-fiction (Paris 1971), all French students of SF have granted a ...

French author Jules Verne gave us some astoundingly accurate ... After several failed attempts early in the 20th century, Sikorsky succeed in designing and flying the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 ...