Commire, Anne, ed. Something About the Author. Vol. 21. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. Article on Verne provides the basic facts of his life along with a listing of editions and adaptations of his work.

Scholes, Robert, and Eric S. Rabkin.

Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision. London: Oxford University Press, 1977. Verne is depicted as a writer to be admired for his imagination rather than his narrative skills.

Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. A Marxist perspective that examines Verne's early socialist ideas.

Verne, Jean Jules. Jules Verne: A Biography. Translated by Roger Greaves.

New York: Taplinger, 1976. Particularly interesting are Verne's letters to his editor, Hetzel, which describe the political considerations that shaped the character of Nemo.