"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
Jules Verne was a French novelist and pioneer of adventure and science fiction literature. His works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, influenced modern speculative fiction.