Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
| Full title | Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre) |
|---|---|
| Author | Jules Verne |
| Published | 1864 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Jules Verne’s novel of a Hamburg professor who decodes a runic note, descends through an Icelandic volcano with his reluctant nephew and a guide, and finds a subterranean sea with weather and prehistoric animals still living in it. The pleasure is its method — barometers, thermometers, geology arguments, and a descent measured the whole way down. |
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — A tier in the Sci-fi — Classics section of the a16z Infra Reading List, the earliest of the four Verne titles they list. They set Verne against Wells as “an infra maximalist and an open optimist,” whose work is “fundamentally about exploring the unknown, pushing the frontiers of human experience, and turning engineers into heroes.”
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — where this is listed, in the classics tier.
- Jules Verne — the author.
- From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days — the other three Verne titles on the list.
- H. G. Wells — the contrast the list draws between them.
- Science Fiction — the genre.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.