THE The French writer Jules Verne wrote several books in the late 1800s. In them, he wrote about the the He "What will life be like at the end of 20th century-one hundred years from to the one of his adventure novels (From the Earth in a Moon, his characters traveled to the moon rocket. In another novel (20000 Leagues Underthe Sea, his characters dove through the depths of the ocean in a submarine in the shape of a whale. In a novel titled Paris the tieth Century, Verne described a with skyscrapers and steel a trains, gas-powered automobiles, and global communications network. Space rockets and submarines and other things in his novels didn't exist in Verne's time, but many of the inventions that Verne imagined became reality by the end of the 1900s. That's why people call Verne a visionary. Jules Verne