query: genre the chase of the golden meteor
supports: Jules Gabriel Verne ( 8 February 1828  24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. A poet is a person who writes poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be a writer of poetry, or may perform their art to an audience. Gary Wesley Westfahl (born May 7, 1951) is a scholarly author and reviewer of science fiction. He has written reviews for the "Los Angeles Times", "The Internet Review of Science Fiction" and Locus Online. He worked at the University of California, Riverside until 2011 and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of La Verne. Science fiction (often shortened to SF, sci-fi or scifi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." It usually avoids the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection is now limited to hard science fiction. The Chase of the Golden Meteor ( French : La Chasse au météore ) is a novel by Jules Verne . It was one of the last novels written by the prolific French hard science fiction pioneer and was only published in 1908 , three years after his death . It is one of seven such posthumous novels , many of which were extensively edited by his son . Verne himself first wrote `` La Chasse au météore '' in 1901 and then rewrote it before his death . Michel Verne is known to have emphasised the romantic sub plot of this novel and expanded it from 17 to 21 chapters , among other changes . It concerns the rivalry between two amateur astronomers in the same small American town who spot a new meteor and attempt to claim the credit for themselves . The meteor turns out to be extremely valuable , as can be guessed from the title , and another eccentric amateur scientist , this time an inventor , creates a device which will cause it to fall where he chooses . This character was an invention of Michel , rather than Jules , Verne . The book is seen as less an early example of hard science fiction than a social satire lampooning greed , monomania and vanity . The future world depicted in the book includes two political predictions which failed to materialise in the century since its publication : firstly , the United States comes to be composed of 51 states and accordingly , its flag has 51 stars , as opposed to the 45 states that existed in 1905 when Verne died ; secondly , Greenland becomes an independent , fully sovereign nation state . Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "Islands of Space" in "Astounding Science Fiction". The complementary term soft science fiction, formed by analogy to hard science fiction, first appeared in the late 1970s. The term is formed by analogy to the popular distinction between the "hard" (natural) and "soft" (social) sciences. Science fiction critic Gary Westfahl argues that neither term is part of a rigorous taxonomy; instead they are approximate ways of characterizing stories that reviewers and commentators have found useful. Peter Schuyler Miller (February 21, 1912  October 13, 1974) was an American science fiction writer and critic. Islands of Space is a science fiction novel by author John W. Campbell, Jr.. It was first published in book form in 1957 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 1,417 copies. The novel originally appeared in the magazine "Amazing Stories Quarterly"; the text was "extensively edited" for book publication, with Campbell's approval, by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. A paperback edition was published by Ace Books in 1966. In 1973, "Islands" was included in a Doubleday omnibus of all three "Arcot, Wade, and Morey" novels. A German translation appeared in 1967 as "Kosmische Kreuzfahrt", and an Italian translation was published in 1976 as "Isole nello spazio".
candidates: adventure fiction hard science fiction literature magazine march novel poet poetry review science science fiction novel soft science fiction space speculative fiction technology time travel
answer: science fiction novel