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Nemoville
| Author: | Brian Stableford |
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Black Coat Press, 2011 |
| Series: | Black Coat French Science Fiction: Book 65 |
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19. News from the Moon |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
This is a new collection of 12 French proto-science fiction tales penned between 1757 and 1924, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. From a pioneering venture on the exploration of "inner space" by renowned Swiss philosopher Emerich de Vattel to visions of Paris in ruins being explored by future antiquarians; from interplanetary communication with the planet Mars to the discovery of a spaceship from Mercury, which crashed in the Antarctic, and the moving saga of the Earthmen who tried to save its alien pilot, this fifth collection provides an unparalleled view of the evolution of French scientific romances. In the title piece, Quebec helped to make up for France's lack of female genre writers with Emma-Adèle Lacerte's 1917 sequel to Jules Verne's classic tale, Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Nemoville) - (2011) - essay by Brian Stableford
- Voyages in the Microcosm - short fiction by Emerich de Vattel (trans. of Voyages dans le microcosme, par un disciple moderne de Pythagore 1757)
- Archeopolis - short fiction by Alfred Bonnardot (trans. of Archéopolis 1859)
- All the Way! The Commune in 1873 - short fiction by René de Maricourt (trans. of Au bout du fossé ! ! : la commune en l'an 2073 1874)
- The Tell-Tale Insects - short fiction by Alphonse Brown (trans. of Les insectes révélateurs 1889)
- A Professional Scruple - (1896) - short fiction by G. Bethuys
- Cataclysm - short fiction by G. Bethuys (trans. of Cataclysme 1896)
- A Message from Mars - short fiction by Paul Combes (trans. of Un message de la planète mars 1897)
- The Blue Laboratory - short fiction by Paul Combes (trans. of Le laboratoire bleu 1898)
- Nemoville - short fiction by Madame A. B. Lacerte (trans. of Némoville 1917)
- Three Hundred Years Hence - short fiction by Pierre Mille (trans. of Dans trois cents ans 1922)
- The Eternal Voyage; or The Prospectors of Space - short fiction by José Moselli (trans. of Le voyage éternel ou Les prospecteurs de l'infini 1923)
- The Planetary Messenger - (2011) - short fiction by José Moselli (trans. of Le messager de la planète 1924)
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