I was recently listening a podcast from a guy specializing in 19th century fantastic, British literature. At one point he mentions Jules Verne and how he isn’t very well known in the English speaking world.
On the flip side, he talks a lot about H.G. Wells.
Being from a Scandinavian country, it’s the opposite here. Jules Verne is very well known but I barely knew about H.G. Wells before this podcast.
What do you think?
They’re about evenly known in my experience. As an example, Verne is in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but Wells is not, whereas Wells got a remake of a remake. I like em both. Classic scifi and steampunk nerds certainly know them both
Wells is probably fresher in the general public’s mind because of the War of the Worlds remake
Journey to the Center of the Earth was also turned into multiple movies.
Fwiw, I completely forgot those existed
I saw the one in the 2000s in the theater. I thought it was fun and the subterranean dinos were neat, but apart from that it wasn’t very memorable. But I’ve read the novel and… I’d say the exact same thing about the novel. So it’s a great adaptation. Verne is fun, but Wells had something to say.