Jules Verne

David Fincher To Tackle Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Remake

A while back, Disney scrapped Terminator Salvation director McG’s darker version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Now Disney’s talking with a new director, David Fincher of Fight Club and Se7en. His oeuvre ain’t sunshine and rainbows. https://gizmodo.com/disney-beaches-captain-nemo-5406605 According to THR, Fincher got the gig this winter by approaching Disney about directing “a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Download 700+ Free Scifi Books Onto Your iPhone

Need to catch up on your reading? Like, a whole damn lot of reading? A new iPhone app offers 746 free public domain scifi books from authors such as Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H.G. Wells. App designers Spreadsong have aggregated hundreds of classic and pulp works from the architects of modern science fiction,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gorgeous New Covers For Jules Verne’s Classics

Illustrator Jim Tierney has designed a series of interactive covers for Jules Verne’s most cherished novels. Wave-shaped dust jackets for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Pop-up spaceships for From the Earth to the Moon? Yes, please. For his senior project, University of the Arts student Jim Tierney reimagined the covers of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues…

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Sam Raimi’s 20,000 Leagues Nixes The Squid For Face-Huggers

Now that McG’s 20,000 League Disney origins movie is beached, Sam Raimi’s adaptation of the Jules Verne novel has a chance to get made. But this version is missing one important element: the same one lacking in Watchmen. https://gizmodo.com/disney-beaches-captain-nemo-5406605 Screenwriter Craig Titley spoke with Scifi Wire about his adaptation of the famous story. The version…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Most Hostile Regions on Earth Where Biology Got a Toehold

There’s been an uptick in speculation lately about whether life could exist on Mars, the moon, or one of Jupiter’s satellites. Too inhospitable, you say? Earth has places that are just as bad, yet rich with organisms. As someone, possibly Jake from Animorphs, once observed, Earth is a tough neighborhood. A feature at Smithsonian magazine…

io9 Alex Eichler

HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction

Poor Jules Verne. All he wanted to do was tell scientifically plausible tales about great explorations and new technologies. Then HG Wells steps in with his fanciful time machines and alien invasions. What happens when their imaginary technologies face off? This is just one of Kate Beaton‘s many historical comics, which chronicle the events in…

io9 Lauren Davis

12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read

Of all the alternate worlds we’re dying to visit, the greatest is that mythical room containing every book that was never written. Here are the dozen unfinished novels by science fiction’s greatest authors, that we wish we could read. The Masks by Ray Bradbury Masks, myths and metaphors” play an important part in much of…

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Journey To The Bottom Of Jules Verne’s Legacy

We all know Mary Shelley was the mother of science fiction, but was Jules Verne the father? One blogger claims Verne wasn’t really interested in science at all. But Verne’s reputation has an unexpected defender: literary novelist Margaret Drabble. John Derbyshire wrote in the New Atlantis a while back: You could make a case, in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Edgar Allan Poe’s Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

Many were shocked when it was revealed that Falcon Heene’s fictitious balloon ride was nothing more than a fame-grabbing hoax, but this is hardly the first time that a fake tale of a high-flying balloon captured people’s imaginations. In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a detailed piece about famed balloonist Monck Mason’s amazing journey across…

io9 Lauren Davis

Ten Epic Steampunk Projects We Wish We’d Thought Of First

We’ve all seen the goggles, the brass, the keyboard mods. But a few steampunk projects go above and beyond, boggling the mind and leaving us breathless. Here are ten steampunk projects that succeed in transporting us to other worlds. Dr.Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators You may have read about Dr.Grordbort’s amazing artillery here before, or perhaps…

io9 Sarah Hope Williams

Airships Sail Through Tentacle-Infested Skies

Steampunk artist Myke Amend‘s paintings of airships are almost deceptively serene, with ornate ships sailing through icy skies. But tentacles and sea monsters lurk in the background, hinting at high adventure and grave dangers. The airship paintings are part of Amend’s “Airships and Tentacles” series, in which he combines Jules Verne-inspired technology with Lovecraftian monsters.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Our Very Own Martian Landscape Here On Earth

This is the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Photographer Vincent Fournier went there to make beautiful photographs that capture the loneliness and desolation of humans on Mars. Someday! At least, I would imagine he got pretty close. We’d have to ask Mars Phoenix to verify though. Fournier bases his photography projects around…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Our Economy Needs A Miracle… Like In Science Fiction

Click to view Don’t panic! Sure, our economy is crappier than a crap-monster attacking a crap factory. But that’s the time when you should look to the future. Our economy could be transformed at any moment, by developments like new technology – or first contact with an alien species. And you can prepare for this…

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Jules Verne’s Vision of The Future Meets With Devastating Rejection

When Jules Verne submitted his novel Paris in the Twentieth Century to longtime publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1863, he might have had good reason to suppose his futuristic vision of an age to come would be accepted. Instead, Hetzel managed a scathing rebuke that still stings 145 years later. You think your boss is hard…

io9 Alex Carnevale

Spectacular Video of Jules Verne Apocalyptical Re-Entry

Here’s the video of the fiery re-entry of the Jules Verne Autonomous Transport Vehicle, the huge European Space Agency spacecraft that carried almost five tonnes of food, air, water and fuel on board the International Space Station. It was taken in high definition from a NASA’s DC-8 at 37,000 feet, 90 miles north of the…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

First Picture of Jules Verne Spacecraft Re-Entry Destruction

This is the first picture of the spectacular re-entry of Jules Verne, the Automated Transport Vehicle that fell from orbit today at 9:31AM Eastern time. Taken from a DC-8, it shows the moment in which it starts to break at 9:43AM, just before falling into the Pacific Ocean. Apparently, the show was amazing because this…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

What Happens to Science Fiction Writers After They Die

The question of what happens after we die is unanswerable outside of Fringe, but the question of where and what will represent our death looms large. Some of our finest genre writers have had themselves cremated: H.G. Wells, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein to name a few. But others have had their memory preserved…

Books & Comics Alex Carnevale

Robotic Wheelchair Uses Lasers to Dock Like a Spaceship

A robotic wheelchair that loads itself into its owner’s car using the same principles as a spaceship does when docking, has been developed by a team from Pennsylvania. An on-board computer uses LIDAR, or light detecting and ranging, to position the chair when it is loaded into a vehicle—exactly the same technique used by the…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Jules Verne Wants You To Shoot The Moon

Jules Verne first published From The Earth to the Moon, or De la Terre à la Lune, in 1865, pre-dating our first real visit to our lunar neighbor by over 100 years. It involves a post -American Civil War group called The Baltimore Gun Club firing a three-person capsule from an enormous gun. The goal:…

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Space Truck Executes “Text-Book” Automated Docking at International Space Station

At 10.45 EST this morning, the Jules Verne docked at the International Space Station, with a 7,500-pound cargo containing equipment, supplies, water, food and gases—and no human driver. The AI-assisted landing of the European space truck after a 26-day journey was described as “text-book” and here it is, courtesy of NASA TV. While the Jules-ISS…

Space & Spaceflight AddyDugdale

David Fincher To Tackle Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Remake

Download 700+ Free Scifi Books Onto Your iPhone

Gorgeous New Covers For Jules Verne’s Classics

Sam Raimi’s 20,000 Leagues Nixes The Squid For Face-Huggers

The Most Hostile Regions on Earth Where Biology Got a Toehold

HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction

12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read

Journey To The Bottom Of Jules Verne’s Legacy

Edgar Allan Poe’s Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

Ten Epic Steampunk Projects We Wish We’d Thought Of First

Airships Sail Through Tentacle-Infested Skies

Our Very Own Martian Landscape Here On Earth

Our Economy Needs A Miracle… Like In Science Fiction

Jules Verne’s Vision of The Future Meets With Devastating Rejection

Spectacular Video of Jules Verne Apocalyptical Re-Entry

First Picture of Jules Verne Spacecraft Re-Entry Destruction

What Happens to Science Fiction Writers After They Die

Robotic Wheelchair Uses Lasers to Dock Like a Spaceship

Jules Verne Wants You To Shoot The Moon

Space Truck Executes “Text-Book” Automated Docking at International Space Station

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