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...His boss James Sweeney wanted to see if all this wonky knowledge could be commercialised....
...Jules Verne is one of the few restaurants in Paris where patrons still dress up for dinner. It is a visual and culinary feast — and well worth the visit....
...At Kew, where they have the Millennium Seed Bank in James Bond-style vaults at -20°C, all the seeds are stored in Kilner jars because they are perfect for the job....
...City Hall, designed by Norman Foster, looks as if Jules Verne was the design consultant. It is a bulbous glass universe, like a lopsided orb, and seems to melt on to the bank of the river....
...HG Wells, who alongside Verne must be considered SF’s other great Victorian forefather, was a mine of successful — if not always happy — prognostications....
...Everyone remembers the red-and-white hot-air balloon in the 1956 film version starring David Niven, but it’s not in Jules Verne’s original book, so it’s not in Laura Eason’s stage adaptation; indeed, Eason...
...Another is making beautiful boats seaworthy again, as household gadget grandee Sir James Dyson has done by restoring Nahlin, a 1930s steam yacht, seems a worthy allocation of funds....
...In contrast, Judith is a free-spirited reader of Galdós, Henry James and John Dos Passos. Her independence and easy confidence simultaneously stimulate and intimidate Ignacio....
...The Wrath of the Lizard Lord, by Jon Mayhew, Bloomsbury, RRP£6.99, 263 pages Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo is an enigmatic figure, a passionate anti-imperialist, cultured, affluent and misanthropic....
...“James Bond!” blurts out Vaculik, as Klein — the car’s chief designer, co-owner and the only man currently insured to fly it — soars over the small crowd that has gathered to watch....
...By James Lovegrove...
...The Jules Verne, the world’s largest operational container ship at 400m long, was making its first stop at the port on its maiden voyage....
...“The sea,” wrote Jules Verne, “is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy....
...Moreau borrows boffins from the works of HG Wells, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and even finds room for Conan Doyle’s own hero, Professor Challenger, too....
...In this non-fiction book Jeff VanderMeer, no mean steampunk author himself, traces the subgenre’s roots in the “scientific romances” of Verne and Wells, the twin godfathers of SF....
...Jules Verne trophy winner Lemonchois finished in three hours, 49 minutes and 58 seconds....
...James Lovegrove...
...Spacecraft with sails, one of which is featured in Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbuster film, have for decades been seen as the most likely way of realising the hopes expressed in Verne’s From the Earth to...
...James Lovegrove is author of ‘The Age Of Ra’ (Solaris)...
...James Cameron, who directed Titanic and Terminator 2, has started shooting Avatar, a science fiction epic, in a 3D format for release in 2009....
...BUILDINGS FOR TOMORROW: Architecture That Changed Our World by Paul Cattermole Thames & Hudson ₤19.95, 192 pages “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real,” said Jules Verne....
...THE INDEX TRANSLATIONUM TOP 50 MOST TRANSLATED AUTHORS 1 Walt Disney Inc US 2 Agatha Christie UK 3 Jules Verne France 4 Vladimir Lenin Russia 5 Enid Blyton UK 6 Barbara Cartland UK 7 William Shakespeare...
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