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Mostly forgotten today, Henri Falk was a comedy writer who, not unlike
Thorne Smith in America, penned several sardonically humorous speculative
fiction stories, three of which have been translated and collected here
for the first time. In The Age of Lead, the Sun's increased emission
of gamma rays cause a universal scourge, the only remedy of which is
lead, which suddenly becomes more valuable than gold. Master of the
Three States tells of a scientist who creates a machine that can transform
the human body into a liquid or a gas. In The Astonishing Adventure
of Sebastian Phlipot, a magician transfers a man's ability to sense
pain or pleasure into a small figurine.
Cover by Chabeuh
Published by Black Coat Press in 2010
ISBN: 978-1-935558-42-2
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