On January 30, 1873, Jules Verne's famous novel 'Around the World in 80 Days' (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) was published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris, France. It is one of Jules Verne's most acclaimed stories, where Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the London Reform Club.
On January 2, 1920, the Russian-born author and professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov was born. He was best known for his science fiction works in which he coined the term 'robotics' and his popular science books.
On October 30, 1938, a Saturday night at 8 pm, H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' was broadcasted at CBS radio in an adaption presented and narrated by future famous film director and actor Orson Welles. The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress and created outrage and panic because some listeners took the broadcast of an alien invasion for real.
On August 22, 1920, the American novelist Ray Bradbury, best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, was born. Ray Bradbury has won every achievable writing award including the National Medal of Arts in 2004 and the National Book Foundation Medal in 2000.
For sure you have seen the classic movie 'The Time Machine', where the Victorian epoch time traveller went to a future far, far away into the world of the future where the old struggle of good against evil will. Then, you also might have heard about the story, where aliens from Mars started war against earth, but finally are going to die because of earth's microbes. Or maybe also the story, when famous actor and director Orson Wells in 1938 produced a radio show from this story, which was mistaken by a lot of American people to be a true radio report about an alien invasion of the USA, causing a real life panic?
Yesterday 11 years ago, famous writer Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy) passed away. Read the Blogpost and watch the videos about him on #yovisto
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"Science Fiction? Naja....eigentlich kommt diese Geschichte erst einmal überhaupt nicht als Science Fiction Geschichte daher. Sieht man einmal davon ab, dass der Protagonist tatsächlich ein Zeitreisender ist...."