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Cover of Paris in the Twentieth Century: The Lost Novel by Jules Verne

Paris in the Twentieth Century

The Lost Novel

1996·222 pages

Fantasy Literary Fiction

A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic.

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Paris in the Twentieth Century

The Lost Novel

Year

1996

Pages

222

Fantasy Literary Fiction

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A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic.

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