Alongside Mary Shelley and H. G. Wells, Jules Verne stands as one of the three founders of Science Fiction, and while you surely know him from some of his most famous titles, such as Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Mysterious Island, not to mention Around the Moon or Five Weeks in a Balloon, we aren't going to talk about any of these—phenomenal though they are. No, we are here to talk about another Jules V

Categories of literature do not share the limitations of human genetics. The wide range of literature we ascribe to Science Fiction is so vast that it can hardly be winnowed down to any set of parents, nor does it need to be. While all humans are bound by a strict genetic limit of one father and one mother, Science Fiction has grown and developed from multiple fathers and mothers. However, general consensus regarding the ancestry of Science Fiction is that it had predominantl

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) As reluctant as Dorian himself was to look at his own picture,...