Verne, Jules

Verne, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon (1865); Around the Moon, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Gary K. Wolfe calls attention to these and other works by JV—available in numerous edns. and trans.—in which JV presents ever more secure interior (more or less mechanical) environments as the featured crafts' external environments become increasingly threatening (Wolfe 55-56) in The Known and the Unknown.[]

See also Arthur B. Evans's discussion of the Nautilus, pp. 130-32 of "Jules Verne's Dream Machines: Technology and Transcendence".