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Originally Posted by Geralt
I totally disagree with you and I think most of his book DO have SF element to them.
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No, they don't. Look at a complete list of his works, and you can see that for yourself. The reason that people think of Verne as an "SF" author, is simply that his "SF" books, such as "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas", "From the Earth to the Moon", etc, are the ones that are still in print. Most of his pure travel books are either not in print, or else have never been translated from French.
Look at works like "Around the World in Eighty Days", or "Five Weeks in a Balloon" - both pure travel adventures, with no SF elements whatsoever.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that Verne didn't write what we would now consider to be "SF" novels. Of course he did. I'm saying that this was not the main focus of his work, and that the overwhelming majority of his books are not SF.