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Friday Fun Thread for March 24, 2023

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I'm a big fan of Jules Verne-style scientific adventure novels. The whole 19th-century spirit of adventure is great fun to read. Are there any modern books, fiction or nonfiction, which have the same vibe?

Adventure novels are a bit like Sci fi stories about space sadly - the more knowledgeable we get about the natural universe, the more mundane reality becomes, shrinking the possibility space in return. We can't have stories about guys becoming giants when exposed to space or stories about finding a secret civilisation inside the earth any more.