20,000 Leagues under the Sea Review

The union of 20,000 commented under the sea "huge, long, spindle, sometimes phosphorescent, and its movement is bigger and faster than a whale." This novel has a background. The protagonist of this story crosses the surface of the earth and moves to the South pole, then returns to the depth of the ocean. Nautilus itself is the true background of the novel and is an imaginative device that enables the movement of novels. The electric turtle designed by Captain Nemo is 2 to 300 feet in length, much faster than the watercraft at the time.

Verne's 20,000 alliance at the seafloor has published continuous publications between 1869 and 1870. At the moment, as the international business takes off between hemispheres, the ocean is often traversed by ships. However, the depth of the ocean remains mysterious for scientists, not only that Nautilus is misunderstood as Naruti, it also leads to the adventure of Professor Aronnax and his unconscious explorer community. This is just the beginning. Just a few decades later, HG Wells will write his prophetic short story "The Land Ironclads" (1903). It is a story of deadlock caused by tank invention. In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (yes it) published his novel "The Lost World", explores the adventure in South America and finds the mysterious plateau where the dinosaurs are still wandering Let's see.

As the authors stated - this is the theme elsewhere in SXSW - SF works have a long history predicting the future. The classic 20,000 league Jules Verne of the seafloor caused the public imagination of the submarine. Arthur C. Clarke proposed geosynchronous satellite communication in 1945, and the short series of Isaac Asimov robots series began to appear in the 1940's in fear of the operation of modern intelligent robots. The author draws out several historical references from the way each big collision fundamentally improved the previous technology and introduced the new technology. In World War I, the tank was invented It was difficult when it raised the groan first in the trench, but it was not moving enough, and it was too late in ground battle . In this war, aircraft were used for the first time in combat for a large scale, but it was once again proved that aerodynamics is not the deciding factor of the result.