Jules Verne(8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905)
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French writer who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leaques Under The Sea, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the Earth in Eighty Days. Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author in the world. Verne is referred to as the Father of Science Fiction, a tittle sometimes share with H. G. Wells.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Journey to the Center of the Earth (French Voyage au center de la Terre) is a science-fiction novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1864 and tells about a journey accomplished by a group of explorers in the earth's interior