In this novel, a group of passengers are thrown overboard from the ship on which they are travelling and end up being rescued, to their astonishment, by a submarine manned by the famous Captain Nemo. One of the French writer’s best known works is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. These are his heirs but what innovations did the author describe in his texts? The submarine It matters less whether a tablet might really work with sprockets and an exhaust pipe, than what it would have looked like if it had been built. What would have happened if, instead of using oil, we had continued using coal? What if the computers, phones and other devices were mechanical instead of electronic? Would smartphones have chimneys?Īs far as the fans are concerned, this is largely an aesthetic movement. Steampunk, as it is known, brings together lovers of literature and science fiction that have a common interest in exploring a history that has not existed. Instead, they took nineteenth century technology as starting point, the same that appears in the Jules Verne’s novels. Its followers imagine a future full of innovations … but with a difference: they are not based on the advances of their time.
In the late 1980s, a new literary, cultural and aesthetic movement took shape. The materials and fuels for his submarines and helicopters were the heirs of the industrial revolution. While Verne was able to imagine gadgets ahead of his time, he always used familiar elements to build them. Steampunk: the aesthetics of Verne in the 21st centuryĪ quick look at the novelties appearing in the author’s books reveals one of the main features of his inventions: all are based on the reality of the technological age in which he lived.
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