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'''Jules Verne''' is a famous French science-fiction author best know for his works including: ''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth'', ''From the Earth to the Moon'', ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' and ''The Mysterious Island''. What is lesser known about him is the fact that he participated in a millennia-old battle between alien robots here on | '''Jules Verne''' is a famous French science-fiction author best know for his works including: ''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth'', ''From the Earth to the Moon'', ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' and ''The Mysterious Island''. What is lesser known about him is the fact that he participated in a millennia-old battle between [[Transformer|alien robots]] here on Earth. | ||
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Revision as of 00:00, 10 August 2012
Jules Verne is a famous French science-fiction author best know for his works including: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island. What is lesser known about him is the fact that he participated in a millennia-old battle between alien robots here on Earth.
Fiction
Hearts of Steel
While visiting San Francisco around the year 1867, Verne rode a chartered ferry with Mark Twain into the middle of San Francisco Bay to witness Tobias Muldoon's new invention, a "sub-marine" named the S.S. Vicuna. However, a technical mishap plunged the Vicuna to the bottom of the bay, a misfortune that brought laughter from Verne, Twain, and the ferry's skipper. Hearts of Steel #1
A few years later, Verne published Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Coincidence? We think not.
Notes
- In the real world, Jules Verne never visited San Francisco and did not know Twain personally. Of course, the real world has no cool giant robots, either, so we'll take the fiction.
