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Originally Posted by HarryT
Verne was actually writing travel adventures, and that's precisely what most of his books were. The elements of a few of his stories that we now consider to be "science fiction" were simply present to allow travel to places such as the bottom of the sea, or the Moon, that were not otherwise "accessible". It's inaccurate to characterise Verne as an "SF" author - that wasn't the main thrust of his work at all. The overwhelming majority of his books have no "SF" element at all.
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Yes Verne wrote adventure stories, but he is a science fiction writer in my opinion. Maybe his works belong now in something that could be called a historical science fiction. People also put him in steampunk genre (which is sf sub-genre).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...erne_and_Wells
I totally disagree with you and I think most of his book DO have SF element to them. Maybe some of those elements are a reality now, but they certainly weren't in his time. They were science fiction then.
To each his own I guess.