Paris in the Twentieth Century: The Lost Novel, (Paperback)

from orangemonkey

Written by Jules Verne in the mid-19th century, this novel was his idea of what the 'future' would look like. I always find books like this fascinating: they always end up having some things fairly...

from john257hopper

This is a highly significant novel because of its discovery nearly a century after the author's death by his great-grandson. It makes very accurate technological predictions based by extrapolation ...

from slavenrm

"Whilst perusing the bookstore a week ago I came across a copy of this for a few bucks and couldn't help but pick it up. In the end, not sure it was worth it. The summary is pretty much what you'd ...

from Devil_llama

It's fun to go back and review what people thought the future would be before it happened. There are, in fact, a number of things he gets at least partway right, but fortunately much of what he for...