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* ReferencedBy Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheRestOfTheRobots'': During the introduction, Creator/JulesVerne is mentioned as a master storyteller who dabbled in ScienceFiction.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Michel Verne shot himself in the foot by publishing a complete list of his father's unfinished works shortly after Jules Verne's death. Thus he ''couldn't'' invent some out of whole cloth and pass off as Jules' work, as we now know he did with a couple of the early-stage drafts that only consist of a basic plot idea and little else, he apparently didn't feel that he could sell his writings under his own name, because he never published any fiction without his father's name on it. Which is a damn shame, because he was a great author himself, if a bit of a fraud.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Artist and photographer Felix Nadar, one of Verne's friends, was the model for the character of Michel Ardan, the eccentric space traveler in ''From the Earth to the Moon''.
** Estelle Hénin-Duchesne, possibly Verne's mistress, who died at 29, may be the inspiration for the opera singer Stilla in ''A Castle in the Carpathians''.
** Another of Verne's potential mistresses, Luisa Teusch, who was married three times and twice widowed, appears in ''Keraban'' as the widow Saraboul.
** The pro-Republic colonel Charras (who died in exile in 1865) was used as a model for the portrait of Nemo, while the illustrator chose Verne himself for Aronnax, and Conseil is named after a French engineer who designed a submarine in 1859.
** Estelle Hénin-Duchesne, possibly Verne's mistress, who died at 29, may be the inspiration for the opera singer Stilla in ''A Castle in the Carpathians''.
** Another of Verne's potential mistresses, Luisa Teusch, who was married three times and twice widowed, appears in ''Keraban'' as the widow Saraboul.
** The pro-Republic colonel Charras (who died in exile in 1865) was used as a model for the portrait of Nemo, while the illustrator chose Verne himself for Aronnax, and Conseil is named after a French engineer who designed a submarine in 1859.
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* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: Happens in many of his novels, where TheProfessor identifies and describes the characteristics of every plant or animal species the protagonists come across, as a means for Verne to [[ShownTheirWork show his work]]. Back then, however, that was what a lot of people read books for, since there was no other means of learning about them save by actually going to see them.
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Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was an influential 19th century French novelist who became famous for his adventure novels and SpeculativeFiction. He is widely credited as being one of the pioneers of the SpeculativeFiction genre (the others being Creator/MarkTwain, Creator/MaryShelley, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, and Creator/HGWells). His works greatly influenced several generations of authors, and is often cited as the basis for the modern {{Steampunk}} setting.
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Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was an influential 19th century French novelist who became famous for his adventure novels and SpeculativeFiction. He is widely credited as being one of the pioneers of the SpeculativeFiction genre (the others being Creator/MarkTwain, Creator/MaryShelley, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, and Creator/HGWells). His works greatly influenced several generations of authors, and is often cited as the basis for the modern {{Steampunk}} setting.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Thomas Roch in ''Facing the Flag'' is a thinly veiled caricature of the famous French chemist Eugène Turpin, who invented the use of the picric acid (trinitrophenol, a common dye and antiseptic) as a military explosive and (reportedly, though the rumors later turned out to be false) toured various governments trying to sell them his patent, after the [[ItWillNeverCatchOn French military turned uninterested]]. Verne, a nationalist at heart, disapproved of Turpin's profiteering, and presented his character in a rather unpleasant fashion. Turpin, naturally, wasn't amused and sued Verne for defamation, but lost, largely because of the effort of the Verne's attorney, Raymond Poincaré.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Thomas Roch in ''Facing the Flag'' is a thinly veiled caricature of the famous French chemist Eugène Turpin, who invented the use of the picric acid (trinitrophenol, a common dye and antiseptic) as a military explosive and (reportedly, though the rumors later turned out to be false) toured various governments trying to sell them his patent, after the [[ItWillNeverCatchOn French military turned uninterested]].uninterested. Verne, a nationalist at heart, disapproved of Turpin's profiteering, and presented his character in a rather unpleasant fashion. Turpin, naturally, wasn't amused and sued Verne for defamation, but lost, largely because of the effort of the Verne's attorney, Raymond Poincaré.
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* AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction: The majority of his books explore the mechanics and social implications of technology, often concluding that ScienceIsBad, and LuddWasRight.
