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FarscapeFirefly
"Look upward, and share the
wonders I've seen...
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John Crichton, Farscape
Stargate
"Burn the land and boil the sea,
You can't take the sky from me.
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Theme Song, Firefly
Farscape Firefly Stargate

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The Matrix

Popular Sci-Fi + Fantasy

Film

TV

Films: 2004 – 2008 | Blu-ray Discs (BDs) + DVDs: Search + Shop

Sci-Fi + Fantasy Films + TV Series Web Sites

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NASA Heroes [In Memoriam]  STS-51-L: Challenger 1986 + STS-107: Columbia 2003.
Neil Armstrong [July 20, 1969]: "Houston. Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
Neil deGrasse Tyson [StarTalk]: "Keep looking up!"
John Crichton [Farscape]: "Look upward, and share the wonders I've seen..."
SETI
Not Quite Science Fiction  😎:
Science, Astronomy + Space Exploration
Columbia

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The
  Extraordinary
Voyages
of
 Jules Verne 
Les
Voyages
Extraordinaires
de
Jules Verne

Paris in The Twentieth Century | Paris au XXe Siècle   Five Weeks in A Balloon | Cinq Semaines en Ballon

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Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905), an enormously popular French writer, is the second most translated person in the world with > 145 languages (according to UNESCO Index Translationum and Wikipedia List of Most Translated Individual Authors), one of the most widely read authors, and one of the most influential novelists of all time.
Creator of the geographic and scientific novel genres, he is also acknowledged as the founding father of modern science fiction.
He was born, lived most of his life and died in the French seaport of Nantes, in Bretagne, upriver from the Bay of Biscay.
In 1851 he graduated from the Faculty of Law in Paris, France, but never practiced.
For a short while he made a living as a playwright, operetta lyricist, and then as a stockbroker.
His literary influence came mainly from Alexandre Dumas, James Fenimore Cooper, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Victor Hugo.
In 1863 he drew upon his interest in natural science, technology, history and geography, studied geology, engineering and astronomy, and started writing a series of 68 novels of extraordinary voyages | voyages extraordinaires written in form of travel books, in which he anticipated with remarkable foresight many scientific and technological achievements of the 20th century, while catching the enterprising spirit of the 19th century and its uncritical fascination with scientific progress and inventions.
He predicted modern space, air and underwater travel (long before space rockets, navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented), and also the videophone, the tank, the artificial satellite, the skyscraper and other modern technological marvels, while inspiring some of the world's foremost scientists, explorers, inventors, and literary authors.
The manuscript of his 1860 novel, "Paris in The Twentieth Century" | "Paris au XXe Siècle" (found and published in 1994) paints a grim, dystopian view of a technologically advanced but culturally backwards future civilization a century into his future (1960), which describes with accuracy and detail internal combustion engine powered cars, an underground passenger train system (metro/subway), high speed trains powered by magnetism (maglev) and compressed air, skyscrapers, electric street lights, fax machines, elevators, sophisticated electrically powered mechanical calculators (computers) capable of sending information among themselves across vast distances (the internet), wind power generated electricity, automated security systems, the electric chair, remotely operated weapons, weapons of mass destruction, suburban growth, mass-produced higher education (online courses), 20th century music, rise of electronic music, the synthesizer, recorded music industry.
Besides futuristic vision and scientific detail, his work depicts tension, adventure and humor.
Most of Jules Verne's books have been translated into all European languages, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic, and continue to be the inspiration for countless theatre plays, motion pictures and television shows.

To quote Ray Bradbury (1920-2012): "...we are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne."
L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000) calls Jules Verne "the world's first full-time science fiction novelist."

    Jules Verne's most famous novels:

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Star Wars

A Galaxy Far, Far Away...
... And Some Pure Science Fiction

Star Trek

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