|  |  | 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 2010ISBN: 978-1-935558-42-2
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