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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Eurydice: The Confession of Tom Ayrton
In The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne marooned Tom Ayrton on a barren rock for twelve years, rescued him, reformed him, and killed him a hero — all in roughly thirty pages, and never once went inside him. Eurydice is the account Verne never wrote: Ayrton's full confession, in his own voice, recorded by the journalist Gideon Spilett on conditions neither man will commit to paper. What emerges is not the tidy redemption of the published record but the slower truth of who Ayrton was before the rock, what he actually did to the ship called the Britannia, and what twelve years of isolation built in him that no rescue could undo. The third novel in the Victorian Era Series, after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. -
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.