History Literature / ParisInTheTwentiethCentury

* AuthorFilibuster: Deserving of special mention is the chapter dedicated to describing how the composer Wagner and his "cult" of imitators with their harsh angsty new sound were clearly going to ruin music FOREVER. ([[Music/{{Skrillex}} Sound]] [[{{Dubstep}} familiar]]?)

* LuddWasRight: Technology makes life cold, impersonal, and pointless.

* PortTown: Paris became one with the construction of a canal. So now is common to see huge ships in the middle of Paris.

* SnowMeansDeath: The last chapters of the book take place during winter. And a lot of emphasis is put on how this is the only thing technology hasn't solved for people and that people are dying even while driving the trains (not even Verne could predict modern heating).

* AuthorTract: The work as a whole was clearly Verne raging against the industrial era assimilating his beloved pre-"City of Lights" Paris
** AuthorFilibuster ...but deserving of special mention is the chapter dedicated to describing how the composer Wagner and his "cult" of imitators with their harsh angsty new sound were clearly going to ruin music FOREVER. ([[Music/{{Skrillex}} Sound]] [[{{Dubstep}} familiar]]?)

* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: Set in slushy deep winter in a sprawling (then) futuristic CityNoir version of 1960's Paris.

** CyberPunk: On the note of PunkPunk, modern readers may note eerie similarities between the themes of this story and that genre. It can also be considered an [[UnbuiltTrope unbuilt prototype]] for the modern {{Dystopia}}.

* {{Zeerust}}: Though calculating machines take the place of computers, records are still kept in books. In this case, a colossal book apparently four meters tall, whose pages are turned with machinery. Also, fashions and and some aspects of daily life are still very reminiscent of the 19th century and there is apparently no air transport (except the odd airship or two, probably). The clothing is also made of spun metal, the closest approach Verne could make to synthetic fibers before the development of polymers.

* {{Cyberpunk}}: In a sense this novel technically could be considered the lost UrExample of cyberpunk; an {{angst}}y young punk struggles against what he sees as a soul-destroying ViceCity in a CrapsackWorld, and its LuddWasRight attitude mirrors the future genera perfectly

** Experimental movements like Jazz and [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]], the dominance of enjoyable but uninventive hit-of-the-week movements like Ragtime and PopMusic, and artsy and emotional movements like {{Blues}} and AlternativeRock.

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* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]

* ScienceIsBad: See "Ludd Was Right" above.

* {{Zeerust}} / TechMarchesOn: Though calculating machines take the place of computers, records are still kept in books. In this case, a colossal book apparently four meters tall, whose pages are turned with machinery. Also, fashions and and some aspects of daily life are still very reminiscent of the 19th century and there is apparently no air transport (except the odd airship or two, probably). The clothing is also made of spun metal, the closest approach Verne could make to synthetic fibers before the development of polymers.

** AuthorFilibuster ...but deserving of special mention is the chapter dedicated to describing how the composer Wagner and his "cult" of imitators with their harsh angsty new sound were clearly going to [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER ruin music FOREVER]]. ([[Music/{{Skrillex}} Sound]] [[{{Dubstep}} familiar]]?)