"The Mysterious Island" is his best book, and it had aged way much better than any of his other novels. Probably because in this one Verne didn't try to venture

"The Mysterious Island" is his best book, and it had aged way much better than any of his other novels. Probably because in this one Verne didn't try to venture far from the realm of possible, giving Cyrus Smith a very advanced set of skills and deep knowledge of contemporary sciences, but abstained from introducing non-existing technologies, besides a brief appearance of Nemo & "Nautilus"