The Begum's Fortune | Literary Precedents

The Begum's Fortune is a fantasy novel, and part of what we today call science fiction. Verne was one of the first to use the genre, a mix of futuristic technology and adventure. His influence on other writers of science fiction is enormous. H. G. Wells, who wrote such classics as the Time Machine (1895; see separate entry), and War of the Worlds (1898; see separate entry), recalled that during his early years he "was welcomed as a second Dickens, a second Bulwer Lytton, a second Jules Verne." Another heir to Verne is Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Mars stories, which...

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