Jules Verne in Eighty Days" (1873). Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun is a video game by American studio AWE Productions released for the Windows and Nintendo Wii, and is the third installment of The Adventure Company's "Agatha Christie" series, developed by AWE Productions, based on Agatha Christie's novel "Evil Under the Sun". The Windows version was released in 2007, and the Wii version one year later. "Evil Under The Sun" features Hercule Poirot as the protagonist, unlike the previous game in the series, "", which had featured Poirot as a non-playable character. It also features numerous improvements and expanded