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H.G. Wells differed from Jules Verne in that he was more inclined to let his fantasy loose. The Frenchman actually criticized him for it: We do not proceed
by V-2 12y ago
H.G. Wells differed from Jules Verne in that he was more inclined to let his fantasy loose.
The Frenchman actually criticized him for it:
We do not proceed in the same manner.
It occurs to me that his stories do not repose on very scientific bases.
No, there is no rapport between his work and mine.
I make use of physics.
He invents.
And yet Wells, bold as he was, was often right (predicting laser, for example).
- notahacker 12y agoThe irony is that one of Jules Verne's best known works is a physically-impossible Journey to the Centre of the Earth, whilst one of Wells' best known works conceives tactical nuclear weapons, radioactive waste on battlefields and MUAD before the structure of the atom was properly understood, and once the neutron was discovered a couple of decades later was acknowledged as an influence on Szilard's thinking when he actually identified the potential for a functioning atom bomb... His utopias are horribly woolly, but for prediction Wells has few equals