An Important Anniversary.....

[Guest]

Yep!

Tomorrow will be 25 of November. And there’s an important anniversary....

But...., what happened a day like tomorrow 150 years ago...? O_o

Maybe John established the Scale Models Forum....?

Or maybe an engineer designed the Spitfire and keeps it in secret until the war....?

NOT

A day like tomorrow 150 years ago, Jules Verne published one of his more important novels....

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne is considerate for many people one of the “Fathers” of the Sci-Fi. Maybe most of you didn’t read this novel, but I’m sure you have seen one of the multiples movie versions.

The Professor Lindenbrock, Axel, Hans, Graüben.......exacting novel (not my Jules Verne’s favourite), but exacting.....

150 years ago.....that was imagination

Don’t know if I will do it this December, or in a GB next year (Snow one for example, I have an idea that can be ok with the novel “Around the World in Eighty Days”......), but I have to build a little tribute at this great writer

Well, hope the Sci-Fi lovers have a sweet memory or little detail toward Jules Verne tomorrow

Cheers

Polux

[colin m]

I should check my facts really, but I think I'm right in saying, my father In law was an extra in the film. Or so I'm told, He's in the huge crowd at the end of the film !

[stona]

Whilst not in any way belittling Jules Verne , or his imagination, it is worth saying that 'hollow earth' theories, some postulating that other civilisations might live within the various hollow spheres that comprise the earth, had become very popular in the early 19th century.

The entrances to this inner world were generally believed to be at the two poles, probably because nobody had been there to prove that they weren't

The ideas developed by Verne in his science fiction have been, and still are, popular with various crackpots from the Nazis to more recently Raymond Bernard and Steven Currey.

Cheers

Steve