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Originally Posted by HarryT
He certainly researched his books - as all good authors do.
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I am not questioning the morality of his work process. I have no doubt he did research but that does not negate that he may have had others helping write these books. Many people have ghost writers now. Even best sellers have their name and then in smaller print
with so and so on the title.
I would have to look at works that focus on him to find out more about how he wrote these. Some of the details are really specific and something I would think only a specialist would know. Like all the fish species in
20000 Leagues Under the Sea. Then all the scientific details he uses to explain things when conflicts about reality come into play.
Another thing I wonder about the time he was writing was his constant use of global coordinates. I wonder if average readers would know what these were without a reference book. Most of these stories were serialized so there was little chance to give a guide to this information in his works. Given his penchant for travel in his stories I guess readers were aware.