The Complete Works of Jules Verne ~ 16 Novels Around the World in Eighty Days Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A Journey to the Center of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Claudius Bombarnac Five Weeks in a Balloon The Master of the World Off on a Comet In the Year 2889 The Blockade Runners An Antartic Mystery A Winter Amid the Ice Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author from Brittany who pioneered the science-fiction genre. 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.