You can now make a living writing science fiction

Jules Verne was the first author to be financially successful writing science fiction. He is second only to Agatha Christie as the most translated author in history. “Around the World in Eighty Days” was the first western novel translated in Japanese. In 1879 he wrote “The Begum’s Millions” which was a book about a conflict between two cities on the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington.

(The Great Courses – Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind)

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