I have a confession to make: Steampunk has been my gateway drug to a wider world of literature. It has gotten me interested in the classics, starting with sci-fi pioneers like Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. Recently as I was browsing in Bookmans (an Arizona retail chain specializing in used books) I came across […]
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Jules Verne is 190 Today
The next in our series of Steampunk Holidays is the birthday of pioneer science fiction author Jules Verne, born February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France. Verne wrote such classics as From the Earth To the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, and Around the […]