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Journey to the Isles of Atlantis is the sixteenth volume in a series of anthologies translating antique items of French roman scientifique.
Included in this collection are Futuristic Paris in 5839 (1822), a story for which the editor was fined a thousand francs and sentenced to three months in prison; The Clockmaker of Nuremberg (1882) and The Inventor (1902), which anticipate the age of aviation; King Beta (1905), in which an aeronaut ends up in a kingdom where modern science is unknown and people still believe in the power of enchanters.
Optimistic accounts of the human future future are presented in Humans in the Year 3000 (1907), dedicated to H G Wells, and The Discovery of the Earth in 2009 (1909).
Finally, the eponymous Atlantis-based fantasy written in 1914 features
Plato’s fictitious island, and uses that vanished civilization as
a satirical reflection of contemporary France.
CONTENTS:
Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford
Paris in 5839: A Dream. Anonymous, perhaps by Félix Bodin (1822)
The Clockmaker of Nuremberg by Julie Lavergne (1882)
The Inventor by Gaston Derys (1902)
King Beta by Louis Lemercier de Neuville (1905)
Humans in the Year 3000 by Gustave Guitton (1907)
The Discovery of Earth in 2009 by Pierre Grasset (1909)
Journey to the Isles of Atlantis by Pierre Hégine and Pierre Billaume
(1914)
Cover by Jean-Félix Lyon
Published by Black Coat Press in September 2018
ISBN: 978-1-61227-794-3
