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Who was the greater visionary?

Started by CountDeMoney, October 09, 2009, 09:12:12 PM

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Who was the greater visionary?

Jules Verne
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HG Wells
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Duque de Bragança

#30
October 10, 2009, 05:01:09 PM Last Edit: October 10, 2009, 05:12:40 PM by Duque de Bragança
Verne bien sûr
Reading it in the original text helps...

katmai

#31
October 10, 2009, 05:10:24 PM
HG all the way.

Jules sucks a big one.
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Slargos

#32
October 10, 2009, 05:12:06 PM
Greater as in "who made the most grandiose speculative prose" or "who was more accurate in their predictions"?

Ideologue

#33
October 10, 2009, 08:02:35 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 10, 2009, 03:49:55 AM
Quote from: citizen k on October 10, 2009, 12:56:59 AM
Wells, because he predicted modern warfare.
See: The Shape of Things to Come



Is that the one with the air commies?

Yes, iirc.  He predicted air warfare about as well as Douhet did. :lol:
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grumbler

#34
October 10, 2009, 10:07:29 PM
Quote from: Alexandru H. on October 10, 2009, 04:25:38 PM
Verne is not boring at all.

Ok, some novels are. But some are worthy of reading even today. Like "Captain Hatteras", "Hector Servadac", "The Lighthouse at the End of the World", "The Golden Volcano" or "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea".

Unfortunately, many are indeed quite boring for the modern-day reader. In this category are some of his famous works: "In Search of the Castaways", "Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon" etc...
Verne wayyyy over-describes by modern literary standards.  His imagination was excellent, but his style didn't have any legs at all.
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Razgovory

#35
October 10, 2009, 10:56:07 PM Last Edit: October 11, 2009, 03:40:35 AM by Razgovory
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on October 10, 2009, 05:01:09 PM
Verne bien sûr
Reading it in the original text helps...

But it's in a dead language...
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Valmy

#36
October 10, 2009, 11:08:27 PM
Quote from: The Larch on October 10, 2009, 12:22:33 AM
Verne, because he actually predicted things that ended up appearing.

Verne for the same reason.

Oh and because he was :frog: so therefore superior in all things.
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DontSayBanana

#37
October 11, 2009, 01:41:02 AM
Also underread in both Verne and Wells, but the style of Verne's derivative works pwns that of Wells'. :contract:
Experience bij!

Rasputin

#38
October 11, 2009, 01:00:43 PM
Null vote: Ayn Rand's visions have come to pass. Wells and Verne were mere ham and eggers when it came to predicting the future.
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The Brain

#39
October 11, 2009, 01:51:50 PM
Can't we just ban all suck puppets?
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Eddie Teach

#40
October 11, 2009, 01:54:13 PM
Ban sugar gliders too while we're at it.
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Martinus

#41
October 11, 2009, 01:55:02 PM
Ban strawmen!

Rasputin

#42
October 11, 2009, 02:05:26 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 11, 2009, 01:54:13 PM
Ban sugar gliders too while we're at it.

:lmfao:
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The Brain

#43
October 11, 2009, 02:07:12 PM
It is a shame how you carry on.
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Rasputin

#44
October 11, 2009, 02:13:35 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 11, 2009, 02:07:12 PM
It is a shame how you carry on.

Who me?

Thanks for noticing.
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