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Around the World in Eighty Days / Temporal Urgency

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: time, precision, adventure, technology, societal expectations  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-07

Fogg observed that his watch was two hours too fast. Admitting that he was at this moment taking an express train, he could reach London and the Refor...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey and Time

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: adventure, technology, colonialism, precision, modernity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-07

So, because you can go round it in three months—” “In eighty days,” interrupted Phileas Fogg. “Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal a...
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The War of the Worlds / Mechanical Innovations

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: technology, industrialization, human-machine interaction, transformation, precision  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-09

These last had brought with them certain fresh appliances that stood in an orderly manner about the cylinder. The second handling-machine was now comp...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Bad Season Exploration

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: colonial challenges, nature's duality, navigational precision, exploration, hardship  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

It was then the bad season in Australia, the July of that zone corresponding to our January in Europe, but the sea was beautiful and easily scanned ro...