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| Han Ryner (1861-1938) was a French anarchist, a philosopher
and a startlingly original science fiction writer in pre-Wellsian, French
scientific romance; he was once voted the Prince of Storytellers by a
popular magazine.
In The Superhumans (1929), Ryner tells stories of the Time of the Mad
Sun, a second sun which lights the Earth in the far future, when a race
of giant and super-intelligent Mastodons has arisen to rule the Earth
and enslave Mankind
He entertains us with the Travels of Psychodorus,
the Cynic Philosopher (1903), who, like Gulliver, encounters Eyeless
Men, Retrograde People and many others strange subcultures
In
1896, he foresaw the revolt of sentient machines (1896), imagined the
crimes of a solitary sociopath in the enlightened year 2347 and the
creation of hybrid man-apes.
Cover by Michel Desimon
Published by Black Coat Press in 2011
ISBN: 978-1-935558-77-4
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