In 1863 Jules Verne,
famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in
Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched
to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson
found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That
manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth Century, an astonishingly
prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science
fiction writers of our time . . .