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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19970101
Author:Robert Taylor, Globe Correspondent
JULES VERNE An Exploratory Biography By Herbert R. Lottman St. Martin's Press, 384 pp., illustrated, $26.95 PARIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By Jules Verne (translated, from the French, by Richard Howard) Random House, 217 pp., $21
A literary historian has calculated that Jules Verne was not the first science-fiction writer, but perhaps the 228th. Verne, however, may have become the first successful writer of "faction" when his debut book, "Five Weeks in a Balloon," appeared in 1863 and reviewers debated whether the book fell under the heading of imaginary voyages or scientific account. "Five ...
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