Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972), aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky's mother, Mariya Stefanovna Sikorskaya, instilled a love for Jules Verne's stories in the Russian-American aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky.

This Preface was not included in either the British or American editions of the novel ... SFS 28.1 (March 2001): 97-106. ─────. Jules Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel. Westport ...

This interstellar interloper, named ‘Oumuamua, was the subject of a scientific and media frenzy at the time—it was even suggested (without compelling evidence) that the object was an alien ...

A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island", the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern ...