Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky | stairs OCR: Verne Jules: (1828 -1905 Successful French fiction writer who set his sixty -five imaginary adventure novels at the farthest reaches of the colonial ima agination. Verne 1 considered one of the founders af science fiction and his works are still in print Although he is best known for his scientific fantasies, which feature futuristic automobiles planes, and submarines, Verne alsa produced many traditional adventure novels set in the wilderness or uncivilized frontiers His favorite themes include unchart subterranean worlds and the planets anc SUOQUI the salar nstenm Iules wnter imagination Veme raditional solar usten