20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

A long time ago, there were no such things as computer games, films, television programmes or even comic books. So, young boys and others yearning to experience strange new worlds of imagination had to rely on the written word. One of the people who delivered those worlds was Jules Verne, the 19th‑century French novelist who is often regarded as the father of the science‑fiction genre. There were, of course, authors…