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Shortly after the end of World War I, the fall of an asteroid in the Atlantic causes a tidal wave and gives birth to a new island. An expedition sent by the French government discovers that it is made of iron... and gold The exploitation of the new island could upset the world's economic order and start a new World War, as forces from all across the globe converge upon the "Golden Rock." Penned in 1927 before the Wall Street crash of 1929 by the great Theo Varlet (The Martian Epic, The Xenobiotic Invasion, Timeslip Troopers), The Golden Rock is both a homage to Jules Verne and a novel with...

Aurore Lescure, the first woman astronaut, who starred in The Xenobiotic Invasion, returns in this ground-breaking novel about the first successful interplanetary flight to the planetoid Eros. There, the intrepid explorers discover that evolution on Eros has taken a different turn than on Earth, producing a species of intelligent dinosaurs... The notion of a Japanese-financed rocket piloted by a French female astronaut was a radical one in 1932, when this daring and original novel was written. With The Castaways of Eros, Theo Varlet hoped to promote the potential of rocket technology to...

Extrait Chapitre 1 Ce qui se passa en l'absence du Maitre Tout le monde aspire depuis longtemps a connaitre la verite vraie sur ces singuliers evenements, et la curiosite publique lui fera sans nul doute bon accueil. Il se trouve que je fus intimement mele a l'histoire de cette maison, durant ces dernieres annees, et personne au monde n'est aussi bien place pour eclaircir les choses, ni tellement desireux d'en faire un recit fidele. J'ai connu le Maitre. Sur beaucoup d'actions secretes de sa vie, j'ai entre les mains des memoires authentiques; je fus presque seul a l'accompagner dans son...

In "Timeslip Troopers" (1923), a squadron of World War I soldiers from the trenches is transported back to the Spanish town of Valencia in the 14th century where they ally themselves with the Moors to fight the Spanish Inquisition.