“I’m just a storyteller,” the famous French writer, incorrigible romantic and tireless popularizer of science, Jules Verne (1828-1905), said about himself. His novels, such as “The Children of Captain Grant”, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, “The Mysterious Island”, “The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain” and many, many others, were and remain attractive to different generations of people in all eras. The books of Jules Verne played a huge role in the professional development of many famous figures in world science and technology. And what about the author himself? How does his life compare to the lives of his characters? The famous writer, poet and translator Gennady Prashkevich will talk about this and much more in his new book.