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Subject: Jules Verne and SciFi
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On 2025-09-24 04:20, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:44:44 +1000, Peter Moylan wrote:
> 
>> The advantage of having lots of books is that there are always some I
>> haven't read for a long time.
> 
> I read 'Robur the Conqueror' a while back but I'd never read it. It was
> written in 1886, 'Five Weeks in a Balloon' from 1863 was one of Verne's
> earliest but he seems to have lost interest in balloons. Robur makes fools
> of members of a balloon club with his heavier-than-air invention.

 From the science fiction point of view 'Five Weeks in a Balloon' is a 
disaster.

First he describes using an electric battery to separate water into 
water and oxygen. Ok, fine. Then he burns that to heat the hydrogen of 
the globe. Ok... but that is against the principle that energy can not 
be created nor destroyed, only transformed. He can get the same effect 
by directly heating the hydrogen inside the globe with an electric 
resistance (as long as it doesn't glow red, LOL).


I take SciFi as following science rules. If a law is broken, it has to 
be explained how. Usually some law is broken, like having superluminal 
speed crafts, but is an assumption they make.

But well, Verne was not yet SciFi, was maybe the best precursor.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
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