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News from the Moon: Nine Proto-Science Fiction Tales
| Author: | Brian Stableford |
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Black Coat Press, 2007 |
| Series: | Black Coat French Science Fiction: Book 19 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
This collection of nine proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, ranges from Louis-Sébastien Mercier's 1768 opening tale, in which the hero communicates with the dead through a beam that anticipates a modern-day laser, to an 1887 story by Guy de Maupassant that speculates on Martian life. In between, we have tales of a heart transplant, a device that can see through time and an alien dragon. The book also includes Albert Robida's classic novella "The Monkey King" in which Saturnin Farandoul, shipwrecked as a baby and raised by apes on a Pacific Island, visits the Mysterious Island and joins forces with Captain Nemo to battle the savage pirate hordes of Bora-Bora. The stories gathered here exemplify the manifest intention of writers from the 18th and early 19th centuries to create a new genre of modern, imaginative fiction, distinctively different from the Utopias and occult romances typical of the times. This edition includes a historical introduction and notes by Stableford.
Table of Contents:
- News from the Moon - short story by Louis-Sébastien Mercier (trans. of Nouvelles de la Lune 1788)
- The Embalmed Hand - short story by Adrien Robert (trans. of La main embaumée 1867)
- The Future Phenomenon - (1992) - short story by Stéphane Mallarmé (trans. of Le phénomène futur 1876)
- The Metaphysical Machine - short story by Jean Richepin (trans. of La machine à métaphysique 1876)
- The Monkey King - short story by Albert Robida (trans. of Le roi des singes 1882)
- The Historioscope - short story by Eugène Mouton (trans. of L'historioscope 1883)
- Tony Wandel's Heart - short story by Georges Eekhoud (trans. of Le cœur de Tony Wandel 1884)
- Martian Mankind - (2004) - short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of L'homme de Mars 1887)
- The Red Triangle - short story by Fernand Noat (trans. of Le triangle rouge 1902)
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