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This is the thirteenth in a series of anthologies of exemplary texts in the evolution of the French genre of roman scientifique.
The seven stories collected here were published between 1784 and 1928. They include two remarkable tales about Future Paris, the first story to seize upon the potential of air balloons as imaginative devices, and an extraordinary pseudo-case study in magnetism by Nobel prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet (writing as "Charles Epheyre").
Also included are a novella about the "death" of iron and
how it changed the fate of the Great War, mind-reading technology and
how it can be used to solve crimes, and the eponymous 1928 novel by Colonel
Royet, which explores in a colorful fashion how a mad scientist threatens
the stability of the world.
CONTENTS:
Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.
My Poor Uncle's Return: The Story of his Voyage to the Moon [Le Retour
de mon pauvre oncle, ou Relation de son voyage dans la lune] by Jacques-Antoine
Dulaure (1784)
Future Paris [Parisa futur] by Joseph Méry (1854)
Sister Marthe [Soeur Marthe] by Charles Epheyre (1889)
Future Paris [Paris futur] by Jules Hoche (1895)
The Iron that Died [Le Fer qui meurt] by Raoul Bigot (1918)
Nounlegos by Raoul Bigot (1919)
On the Brink of the World's End [A deux doigts de la fin du monde] by
Colonel Royet (1928)
Cover by Yvan Villeneuve
Published by Black Coat Press in February 2016
ISBN: 978-1-61227-474-4
