Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas

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• antegamisou · Nov 25, 2021 · Recommends

  Yes I was surprised Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas did not make it to this list. But then most people have a very narrow view of what sci-fi is, boiling it down to cyborgs and space.

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• kombookcha · Jun 25, 2026 · Recommends

  …as a kid, I imagine I would be relating differently to all of these very adult concerns. One of the best gifts I ever got was when my dad plopped down a big box full of old classical adventure novels (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, King Solomon's Mines, Captains Courageous, Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo type of stuff) and I devoured all of them over the course of the next year or so. I'm sure I would appreciate a lot…

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• kaliszad · Sep 9, 2020 · Mentions

  …diesel. Most of these reactions at industrial scale are more than 50 years old but nobody bothered to actually implement it (even though a hint about sodium cells for electricity generation is present in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater" by Jules Verne already) instead of the more complex approaches like e.g. synthetic gasoline. You can look at the orgpage about these ideas https://orgpad.com/s/energiewende…

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• wrp · Oct 20, 2024 · Mentions

  Nemo was originally written as a Polish aristocrat. When you consider that, all aspects of his description in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) make sense. By the time Verne wrote The Mysterious Island (1875), his ire had become more directed toward the British rather than the Russian empire, so he changed Nemo to be an Indian prince.

• S4M · Aug 29, 2020 · Mentions

  It's a great idea, just one suggestion: would it be possible to choose the language of the novels we decide to read? For example, I am French, so I would rather read _The Count of Monte Christo_, _Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas_ or _Madame Bovary_ in their original versions.

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• ben_w · Nov 10, 2023 · Critical

  I’ve listened to From the Earth to the Moon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and between the lists of things that mean nothing to me[0] and the humans being unrealistic[1], I have to assume something was lost in the translation, because they… are just not any good. [0] 10 kinds…

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• adrian_b · Oct 20, 2024 · Mentions

  The change about Nemo's origin must have been done before finishing "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas", because already in that there were expressions of his discontent with the British Empire, above any others, I think towards the end of the novel, when he attacked some British war ship (an attack that…