The French scientist and explorer, Jean-Luc Pikaja, was a famous French sci-fi author. His works included Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea (2005) and Mysterious Island (2008). He was born on January 5, 1930 in the Alsace region of France. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieur and the Ecole National de la Sécie Supérieur de la Séciéenne d'Appartement. After graduating, he became an engineer. Pikaja was highly accomplished in the fields of literature and science. His novels often combined science fiction, adventure, and language elements to explore the relationship between humans and nature, technology and the future. His representative work, Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea, won several international literary awards and was hailed as one of the most important science fiction novels of the 20th century.