Today, it’s the 183th birth day of one of my favorite childhood authors, Jules Verne, who wrote fantastic novels like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), among many others; and Google, as always is up & ready to celebrate the occasion with an interactive doodle a.k.a a Google Doodle…
ABOUT. Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8, 1828 in Nantes, Brittany in France. His novels (basically science-fiction) were all about his vision, as he wrote stories on space and underwater travel, even before spaceships and submarines existed (or were even thought practically possible).
Verne is often hailed in level with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, as the "Father of Science Fiction." He wrote numerous short stories, essays, plays, and poems, alongside 54 extremely popular novels including – - Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island, From the Earth to the Moon, A Floating City, Off On A Comet and so forth, only show a glimpse of the extent of his imagination.
By Christina Doland
