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The Conqueror of Death
| Author: | Brian Stableford |
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Black Coat Press, 2013 |
| Series: | Black Coat French Science Fiction: Book 106 |
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19. News from the Moon |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
In the 1890s, a generation before Hugo Gernsback, Louis Figuier, editor of the French popular science magazine La Science Illustrée, made a concerted effort to define and delimit the genre of roman scientifique, using that term to head a series of feuilletons that ran in his magazine from 1888 to 1905. This is a new collection of eight French proto-science fiction stories taken from the pages of La Science Illustrée, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. Included here are Vernian romances, tall tales featuring the dramatic extrapolation of natural phenomena, stories highlighting the scientific obsessions of geniuses with its social and psychological costs, and stories of everyday life in which scientific knowledge comes to play a significant role.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (The Conqueror of Death) - (2013) - essay by Brian Stableford
- The Tribulations of an Angler - short fiction by Alphonse Brown (trans. of Les tribulations d'un pêcheur à la ligne 1891)
- The Story of an Earthquake - short fiction by Camille Debans (trans. of Histoire d'un tremblement de terre 1892)
- Le Désiré - short fiction by Émile Gautier (trans. of Le Désiré, première traversée d'un bateau sous-marin 1893)
- Fire Island - short fiction by Camille Debans (trans. of L'île en feu 1893)
- Springfield's Doubloons - short fiction by Georges Price (trans. of Les 800 doublons de Springfield 1895)
- A Steam Duel - short fiction by Camille Debans (trans. of Un duel à vapeur 1895)
- The Conqueror of Death - short story by Camille Debans (trans. of Le vainqueur de la mort. Chronique des siècles à venir 1895)
- The Gold-Mines of Bas-Meudon - (1898) - short fiction by Paul Combes (trans. of Les mines d'or du Bas Meudon)
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