16 years after the book was published, American journalist Nelly Bly embarked on her own real-life journey to circumnavigate the world via train and steamship, completing the trip in 72 days (and beating competing journalist Elizabeth Bisland's own record of 76 days). Like most of Verne's other books, Around The World In 80 Days wound up predicting the future with remarkable accuracy. Related: 13 Science Fiction Futures That Never Came To Pass His adventure novel Around The World In 80 Days, technically not one of his "scientific romances," was still born out of the same awe/fear of technology's potential that Verne and other residents of the Victorian era shared.
Despite being one of the earliest science fiction writers, he had a formidable talent for guessing the future, predicting the existence of motorized submarines in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, circumlunar space travel in From The Earth To The Moon, and nearly every aspect of modern society in his posthumously published work Paris In The Twentieth Century. Jules Verne, frequently referred to as the "father of science fiction," wrote most of his "Voyages Extraordinaires" between 18. In the recently released video game 80 Days , players can recreate Fogg and Passpartout's epic attempt to go around the the world in 80 days, choosing different travel routes in their globe-trotting trek, encountering ahistorical examples of steampunk technology, and also meeting well-drawn characters who question/challenge the main characters' Colonial European assumptions.
Jules Verne's 19th century novel Around the World In 80 Days, one of his most famous works of fiction, narrates the spectacular adventures of English gentleman adventurer Phileas Fogg and his harried-yet-loyal French assistant Passpartout.
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