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What's up, Jules? (French novelist Jules Verne)

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From: R & D
Date: 19941101
Author:Jueneman, Fred

Some folks stand behind their speculation. Some hide behind it. As for myself, I wallow in it. But, far and away the favorite writer among my boyhood heroes--the 19th-century French novelist and science fiction author Jules Verne, whose every book I devoured as a youngster--personified almost everything I've attempted to do over the last quarter century in these august pages.

There are many other pet science fiction novelists, of course, but none with the cognizance and panache of Verne. H.G. Wells was a distant second, and even Edward Everett Hale--Chaplain of the Senate--had a ...

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