Georges Roux was a French artist and book illustrator. His best-known works today are a large number of illustrations he created for the science-fiction novels of Jules Verne

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...

, in the series Les voyages extraordinaires

Voyages Extraordinaires

Les Voyages Extraordinaires was a publishing title affixed to the novels and non-fictional writings of French author and science fiction pioneer Jules Verne...

. He was the second-most prolific illustrator of Verne's novels, after Léon Benett

Léon Benett

Léon Benett, was a French painter and illustrator. He was born in Orange, Vaucluse. He changed his name to "Benett" to differentiate his career in the administration of his work as a draftsman....

, drawing the illustrations for 22 novels in the original editions of Verne's works with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel

Pierre-Jules Hetzel

Pierre-Jules Hetzel was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today...

. The first of them was L’Épave du Cynthia (The Salvage of the Cynthia, 1885) and the last was L'Étonnante aventure de la mission Barsac (The Barsac Mission, 1919).

External links

• Gallery of illustrations of "Voyages Extraordinaires", compiled by the Science-Fiction Studies journal.