Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...

See Jules Verne Alternate language/spelling profile for Jules Verne. This is the Spanish spelling—Portuguese is Júlio Verne. Do NOT merge author profiles in different languages/spelling. Per GR policy, books published as Julio Verne should have that name as secondary author, with Jules Verne as primary author.