History Trivia / ParisInTheTwentiethCentury

* CreatorsOddball: Thematically, it's far more evocative of Verne's later novels (cca from the 1880s onward), which were more pessimistic about the effects of technological advancement on humanity and had more HumansAreBastards undertones. Mind you, ''Paris'' was only his ''second'' sci-fi or adventure novel, and he went on to write many exciting and genuinely optimistic novels until he suffered a gradual CreatorBreakdown in the 1870s and 1880s, which lead to his works becoming far DarkerAndEdgier. It's as if this novel was teleported from that later phase of his writing career, instead of the more cheerful early one.
* OldShame: While Verne actually liked the novel and defended it, his first real publisher, Hetzel, was fond of criticizing it. Verne later gave up and the novel became forgotten and unpublished until ''freaking 1994''.

* OldShame: While Verne actually liked the novel and defended it, his first real publisher, Hetzel, was fond of criticizing it. Verne later gave up and the novel became forgotten and unpublished until ''freaking 1994''. Also, the novel is kind of a CreatorsOddball compared to the rest of his early writings: thematically, it's far more evocative of his later novels (cca from the 1880s onward), which were more pessimistic about the effects of technological advancement on humanity and had more HumansAreBastards undertones. Mind you, ''Paris'' was only his ''second'' sci-fi or adventure novel, and he went on to write many exciting and genuinely optimistic novels until he suffered a gradual CreatorBreakdown in the 1870s and 1880s, which lead to his works becoming far DarkerAndEdgier. It's as if this novel was teleported from that later phase of his writing career, instead of the more cheerful early one.

* OldShame: While Verne actually liked the novel and defended it, his first real publisher, Hetzel, was fond of criticizing it. Verne later gave up and the novel became forgotten and unpublished until ''freaking 1994''. Also, the novel is kind of an OddOneOut compared to the rest of his early writings: thematically, it's far more evocative of his later novels (cca from the 1880s onward), which were more pessimistic about the effects of technological advancement on humanity and had more HumansAreBastards undertones. Mind you, ''Paris'' was only his ''second'' sci-fi or adventure novel, and he went on to write many exciting and genuinely optimistic novels until he suffered a gradual CreatorBreakdown in the 1870s and 1880s, which lead to his works becoming far DarkerAndEdgier. It's as if this novel was teleported from that later phase of his writing career, instead of the more cheerful early one.

* OldShame: While Verne actually liked the novel and defended it, his first real publisher, Hetzel, was fond of criticizing it. Verne later gave up and the novel became forgotten and unpublished until ''freaking 1994''. Also, the novel is kind of an OddOneOut compared to the rest of his early writings : Thematically, it's far more evocative of his later novels (cca from the 1880s onward), which were more pessimistic about the effects of technological advancement on humanity and had more HumansAreBastards undertones. Mind you, ''Paris'' was only his ''second'' sci-fi or adventure novel, and he went on to write many exciting and genuinely optimistic novels until he suffered a gradual CreatorBreakdown in the 1870s and 1880s, which lead to his works becoming far DarkerAndEdgier. It's as if this novel was teleported from that later phase of his writing career, instead of the more cheerful early one.

* OldShame: While Verne actually liked the novel and defended it, his first real publisher, Hetzel, was fond of criticizing it. Verne later gave up and the novel became forgotten and unpublished until ''freaking 1994''. Also, the novel is kind of an OddOneOut compared to the rest of his early writings : Thematically, it's far more evocative of his later novels (cca from the 1880s onward), which were more pesimistic about the effects of technological advancement on humanity and had more HumansAreBastards undertones. Mind you, ''Paris'' was only his ''second'' sci-fi or adventure novel, and he went on to write many exciting and genuinely optimistic novels until he suffered a gradual CreatorBreakdown in the 1870s and 1880s, which lead to his works becoming far DarkerAndEdgier. It's as if this novel was teleported from that later phase of his writing carreer, instead of the more cheerful early one.