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    In the Year 2889
    In the Year 2889
    In the Year 2889
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    In the Year 2889

    By Jules Verne

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    Article purportedly by Jules Verne, but probably by his son. According to the editor's note at the beginning: "In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889; p. 262. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules' son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Verne's ideas."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781609770990
    In the Year 2889
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    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne, a pioneering science-fiction writer, was born in the French port city of Nantes on 8 February, 1828, to Pierre Verne, a successful lawyer, and his wife Sophie. Verne published Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863, an immediate hit, followed by Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and his two most influential books, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) that combined the newly developing genre of travel writing with Verne's own experimentation with science fiction. Since 1979, he has been the second most translated writer in the world. Verne died of old age and illness on 24 March 1905.

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      In the Year 2889 by Jules Vern is an interesting example of forecasting a future possibility. It was first published in February 1889. Many of his described devices, while called by different names, have come about at the present time. For the imagination involved I gave it four stars."Hence is sprung a pleaid of inventor, its brightest star being our great Joseph Jackson." A pleiad is any group of eminent or brilliant persons or things, especially when seven in number. I would like to thank Kypros Press & Amazon for a complimentary kindle copy of this short story. This did not influence my opinion for this review.
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      This is the far future, as seen by someone in the distant past. It has some interesting point and visions, but does not hold up to the current state of science fiction.  It is short, and rather odd. It's all done with mirrors.
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      Let's face it, this is an old book. But when you really stop and think about what he got right and what he got wrong, you realize that this was a special person.

      JV looked a 1,000 years into the future and thought about what man might accomplish. The thing is, many of the things he dreamed up happened in about a 100 years!

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    In the Year 2889 - Jules Verne

    In The Year 2889

    By Jules Verne

    Start Publishing LLC

    Copyright © 2013 by Start Publishing LLC

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

    First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2013

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    Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland. Surfeited as they are with marvels, they are indifferent in presence of each new marvel. To them all seems natural. Could they but duly appreciate the refinements of civilization in our day; could they but compare the present with the past, and so better comprehend the advance we have made! How much fairer they would find our modern towns, with populations amounting sometimes to 10,000,000 souls; their streets 300 feet wide, their houses 1000 feet in height; with a temperature the same in all seasons; with their lines of aërial locomotion crossing the sky in every direction! If they would but picture to themselves the state of things that once existed, when through muddy streets rumbling boxes on wheels, drawn by horses--yes, by horses!--were the only means of conveyance. Think of the railroads of the olden time, and you will be able to appreciate the pneumatic tubes through which to-day one travels at the rate of 1000 miles an hour. Would not our contemporaries prize the telephone and the telephote more highly if they had not forgotten the telegraph?

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