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JULES VERNE'S RESURRECTED FUTURISTIC WORK SHOULD HAVE BEEN LEFT TO REST.(Lifestyle)(Review)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19970102
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Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century, a fabulist whose ability to link technology with imagination to create riveting pop-culture products was uncanny.

Verne does not belong among the canonical authors any more than his 20th-century counterpart will ever win the Nobel Prize. But his books, which have been translated into more languages than those of any other French author, embodied a vision of future possibilities that still seizes the mind, even in the instances where the technology turned out to be more fanciful than real.

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