Classic sci-fi

In the last few weeks J and I have been reading/listening to Jules Verne's 20,000 Meilen unter dem Meer and listening to H.G. Wells's Die Zeitmaschine.

The Verne is linguistically quite difficult, with long convoluted and periodic sentences. J loves the story, but has asked to postpone reading further (we watched the 1954 Hollywoood film, which satisfied him for now). Die Zeitmaschine is a notch or two down in terms of language complexity and he understands most everything. He has listened with great interest, and it has sparked a lot of great conversations about what he would like to do if he could time-travel, how he sees the future (not nearly so pessimistic as the Wells's Time-Traveller, thank goodness!), etc.