According to legend, when the writer once came to an appointment with the minister, the secretary invited him to sit down with these words: "After so many trips, you must be very tired."

Fans of the writer's talent had no doubt that he describes real journeys and the adventures of his characters are quite real.

In 1863, Jules Verne wrote the book "Paris in the XX century", in which he described in detail the car, fax machine and electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him.

Jules Verne is a science fiction writer, a visionary, a fortune teller. He fantasized about technological progress, many people liked his ideas, and today we are surrounded by a lot of things from his "FANTASTIC" books.

Verne earned reader recognition as the founder of the science fiction genre. His fantasies were prophetic.

In novels that have become classics, - "From Earth to the Moon", "Around the Moon"; "20,000 leagues under the sea", "Mysterious Island", - Verne predicted space travel, submarines, helicopters, airplanes, artificial satellites, guided rockets with a jet engine.

All readers of science fiction know that most of the ideas of Jules Verne expressed in his works have long been realized, others continue to be embodied in our time, for example, modern projects of geothermal plants that use the internal heat of the Earth.

The famous science fiction writer wrote about this problem, which has become even more urgent in our time of energy crises, in the novel "500 million begums".

Кузнецова Анастасия, Кузнецова Анастасия, ученица 8 В класса МБОУ «Лицей № 4 Многопрофильный» г. Пскова