Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) is a classic science fiction about Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. A group of men face a mysterious monster at the sea. They are saved from drowning but are then caught up in some of the Captain's other peculiar missions. Scribiners wrote of Verne that 'Few writers of modern times are comparable with him for fertility of resource, ingenuity, and versatility. His inventive powers seem inexhaustible; his pen as prolific as hi