Tag: Jules Verne
This tag collects work connected to Jules Verne — the foundational science-fiction author whose voyages and machines shaped the genre. It gathers reviews and fiction touching his stories, their adaptations, and the lineage they began. The collection grows as further Verne-related work is added.
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Méliès's 1902 14-minute fantasy short. The first proper science fiction film. The shot with the rocket in the moon's eye is the most reproduced image in early cinema. -
Mysterious Island (1961)
Mysterious Island is the Harryhausen adaptation of Jules Verne. Cy Endfield directed it. The film adapts Verne's 1874-1875 novel L'Île mystérieuse, with... -
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the film where Ray Harryhausen invented the modern fantasy adventure. Nathan Juran directed it. Kerwin Mathews plays Sinbad... -
San Andreas (2015)
San Andreas is a Dwayne Johnson disaster movie. That sentence describes most of what it is. Brad Peyton directed it. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a Los... -
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — Review
Foundational dual-perspective Pearl Harbor film. Equal substantive treatment of American and Japanese forces. Won Best Visual Effects Oscar. 9/10. -
The Time Machine
A Victorian scientist builds a time machine because his wife is dying of smallpox and he believes the future holds a cure. He finds it. Then he keeps going, because he cannot bring himself to face the moment he has to return to. -
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Nautilus has taken three prisoners. Ned Land counts days. Aronnax has quietly stopped planning to escape. Lakara is not a prisoner. A reimagining of Verne's 1870 classic — told from the inside. -
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island gave the world Neb — a Black man from Cameroon, present on every page and absent from every sentence that mattered. This reimagining corrects that absence. -
Steampunk Writer’s Handbook
Psychology-first steampunk writing. Victorian technology costs, 19 chapters, 9 case studies, 216+ AI prompts. From a 113-book author who grew up on Jules Verne. -
The Books I’d Bring to a Desert Island (And the Ones That Betrayed Me)
A grumpy rereader's guide to science fiction and fantasy. The books that hold up after 40 years, the teenage favorites that turned to trash, and what separates keepers from kindling.