Jules Verne was the Isaac Asimov of the 19th century: an erudite, polished writer who took great care to imbue his work with scientific plausibility, and very little care to make his characters particularly interesting. "Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the kalends of July, and you will attain the centre of the earth which I have done, Arne Saknussemm." It vividly animates a fantastical subterranean world as an intrepid crew, led by the eccentric Otto Lidenbrock, traverses the planet’s core and its various bizarre obstacles: giant mushrooms and insects, a herd of mastodons, prehistoric humans, a treacherous pit of magma, and more. Journey to the Center of the Earthh is one of literature’s earliest works of science fiction.
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