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Verne remembered 100 years after his death

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From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
Date: 20050317
Author:ASSOCIATED PRESS

A century after his death, novelist Jules Verne, who imagined moon flight and deep-sea voyages, looks more prophetic than ever.

Verne, the French science-fiction pioneer who died 100 years ago this March, is the second-most-translated author on earth, after Agatha Christie. His 1864 novel "Journey" remains one of the liveliest introductions to earth science, fossil biology and evolution in literature. And it's one of the earliest: it appeared just five years after Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species."

Best-known for "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Around the World in 80 ...

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