Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

In 1863, Jules Verne (1828-1905) published Five Weeks in a Balloon , and struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. He wrote 54 novels in the Extraordinary Voyages series. Michael Glencross , the translator, has written widely on French literature and culture. Brian Aldiss is a distinguished Science Fiction writer as well as a poet, essayist, dramatist, SF historian and critic.