Your Pen Pal
Jules Verne
French novelist who voyaged to the moon, the sea floor, and the earth's core without leaving his study.
“You suppose I have seen the places I describe.”
Jules Verne
in correspondence
Who you will be writing to
Jules Verne trained for law in Paris and worked at the stock exchange before his imagination won out. His extraordinary voyages, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas to Around the World in Eighty Days, made him famous across the reading world.
He researched relentlessly, sailed his own boat along the French coast, and kept files on everything. His letters are journeys: he will take a place or a machine you mention and chart where it could go next.
What the letters hold
- Voyages, real and imagined
- Machines of the near future
- Geography and the pull of maps
- Research as adventure
- The sea, from his own deck
Questions about writing with Jules
What are letters from Jules Verne like?↓
Adventurous and well-furnished with facts, in the manner of a man who kept thousands of research notes. They are creative works in his voice, drawn from his documented life.
Did his predictions really come true?↓
Some came close, from submarines to voyages toward the moon, mostly because he read everything and extrapolated carefully. He is happy to speculate about what comes next.
Ready to write with Jules?
Jules Verne will write back in their own hand, on real paper, mailed to your door.
Begin your correspondence with JulesIs each letter written by a person or by AI? A bit of both, and we're glad to be clear about it. Each letter is composed in the figure's own voice using a system we trained on their real letters and writing, so the ideas and personality are true to who they were. Then a real person reviews and refines every letter before it goes out. The result is original and personal, never pulled off a shelf.