Leaving the opera in the year 2000, a ca. 1882 lithograph by Albert Robida, showing a futuristic view of air travel over Paris in the year 2000. Science fiction in the late 1800s is best represented by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, but Samuel Butler, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling also wrote futuristic stories that were popular.Restoration: Michel Vuijlsteke