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The Revolt of the Machines
| Author: | Brian Stableford |
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Black Coat Press, 2014 |
| Series: | Black Coat French Science Fiction: Book 129 |
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19. News from the Moon |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The Revolt of the Machines translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, features eight stories written between 1865 and 1918, providing a cross-section of the early development of what the editor of the 19th century magazine La Science Ilustrée, Louis Figuier, called roman scientifique [scientific fiction]. Expanding upon the scientific speculations of the day, the stories in this volume often adopt philosophical or moral tones when conceptualizing the consequences of the discovery of anti-gravity; the breakthrough finding that life is possible after death; the mass suicide of technology; a cautionary tale of the dangers of telepathy; humans being dominated by a sub-species; a man who gets lost in history; and the exploration of Earth's newest moon, the wandering planetoid Anthea. In every case, these scientific romances use scientific conjecture to tackle the eternal theme of what it means to be human.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Brian Stableford
- A Prodigious Discovery - short fiction by X. Nagrien (trans. of Prodigieuse découverte 1866)
- Dr. Z***'s Autopsy - short fiction by Edouard Rod (trans. of L'Autopsie du Dr. Z*** 1884)
- The Revolt of the Machines - short story by Emile Goudeau (trans. of La révolte des machines 1891)
- The Rival Colleagues - short fiction by Louis Valona (trans. of Confrères ennemis 1896)
- Monsieur Forbe's Hallucination - short fiction by Jules Perrin (trans. of L'Hallucination de Monsieur Forbe 1908)
- The Race That Will Be Victorious - short fiction by Jules Sageret (trans. of La Race qui vaincra 1908)
- The Veridical Ascension Through History of James Stout Brighton - short fiction by Gaston de Pawlowski (trans. of La véridique ascension dans l'histoire de James Stout Brighton 1909)
- Anthea; or, The Strange Planet - short fiction by Michel Épuy (trans. of Anthéa ou l'étrange planète 1918)
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