Philately - The Fiction Connection
The Mystery Box book is the proud winner of a Silver Medal awarded by the Chicago Philatelic Society CHICAGOPEX Literature Exhibit
Read the Book Review by Barbara Kinne of the APS American Philatelist
The stamp is from a set issued by the Republic of Guinea in 1978 (Scott 769-773) honoring the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth. |
Written in 1870, the "scientific romance", as it came to be called, showed Verne's uncanny knack for predicting 20th century technological advances, in this case a submarine that runs on a limitless supply of energy. Novels such as this set the stage for science fiction to come. |
