It first took those doyens of nineteenth-and twentieth-century science fiction, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, to show us just how driven their imagined scientists could be.

小说开始谈到了十九和二十世纪的科幻前辈，儒勒·凡尔纳和赫伯特·威尔斯，以此向我们显示：他们想象的那些科学家有多么有大志。