User blog comment:Dark Cyan/Cyan's Rap Battles of Literature 3: Jules Verne vs H.G. Wells/@comment-1197011-20150416185411/@comment-190.33.200.197-20150911145125

Though I like both, I side to old Jules! It were precisely his "dry adventure stories" which positively inspired people to achieve what he foresaw in his novels; Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin claimed that FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON moved him to become the first man to go out from this, Earth, people who read 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA  explored the ocean depths, like Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau, responsible for designing the "aqualung", the first "autonomous breathing diving suit", very much as how Captain Nemo`s, not to mention that the first atomic powered submarine was baptized "Nautilus", and traveled beneath the polar ice cap, very much like Verne`s novel...and how abouth this 1901 Wells` quote "my imagination resist the idea of any submarine doing with its crew floundering at the bottom of the Sea..." funny, how a dude capable to write abouth Martians and time travel dismissed a technology that was practical and feasable, and a few years later would become the most decisive, and deadly weapon for modern warfare. BTW, my all time favourite book is JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, for its spellbinding imagination