Paris in The Twentieth Century: Difference between revisions

* [[Ludd Was Right]]: Technology makes life cold, impersonal, and pointless.

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: [[Unbuilt Trope]]. And it's actually set in [[The Sixties]]!

* [[Old Shame]]: While Verne actually liked the novel and defended it, his first real publisher, Hetzel, was fond of criticizing it. Verne later gave up and the novel became forgotten and unpublished until ''freaking 1994''. Also, the novel is kind of an [[Odd One Out]] compared to the rest of his early writings : Thematically, it's far more evocative of his later novels (cca from the 1880s onward), which were more pesimistic about the effects of technological advancement on humanity and had more [[Humans Are Bastards]] undertones. Mind you, ''Paris'' was only his ''second'' sci-fi or adventure novel, and he went on to write many exciting and genuinely optimistic novels until he suffered a gradual [[Creator Breakdown]] in the 1870s and 1880s, which lead to his works becoming far [[Darker and Edgier]]. It's as if this novel was teleported from that later phase of his writing carreer, instead of the more cheerful early one.* [[Science Is Bad]]: And how.

* [[Steampunk]]: Arguably... ''averted''. Verne - [[Shown Their Work|as was typical for him]] - foresaw that steam would ''not'' be the main source of power in 1960. He bet on compressed air, instead.