Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early-20th century, Renard coined the term Scientific Marvel Fiction. This is the fourth in a series of five volumes, translated and annotated by Stableford, devoted to presenting the classic works of this pioneering giant.
Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early-20th century, Renard coined the term Scientific Marvel Fiction. This is the fourth...
J.-H. Rosny Aine is the second most important figure in modern French science fiction after Jules Verne. Rosny, who was a member of the distinguished Goncourt literary academy, was also the first writer to straddle the line between mainstream literature and science fiction. Until now, Rosny has best been known to the English-speaking public for his prehistoric thriller, Quest for Fire. In The Cataclysm (1896), the physical laws of nature change in an entire region of France because of the arrival of a strange electro-magnetic entity from outer space.The Mysterious Force (1913) is about the...
J.-H. Rosny Aine is the second most important figure in modern French science fiction after Jules Verne. Rosny, who was a member of the distinguished ...
A team of spelunkers is found dead in mysterious circumstances in the shadow of the once-proud Cathar redoubt of Montsegur, in Southern France. What mysterious treasure were they seeking--and did they find it? A ruthless battle over long-buried secrets is going to pit the Roman Catholic Church against an ancient secret society and descendents of the Nazis who once looked for the Holy Grail in Montsegur, with the very future of Humanity at stake... Published in France two years before the world-famous Da Vinci Code, The Song of Montsegur is an award-winning, fast-paced supernatural thriller...
A team of spelunkers is found dead in mysterious circumstances in the shadow of the once-proud Cathar redoubt of Montsegur, in Southern France. What m...
In The Experiment of Dr. Mops (1939), a man's vision is modified so that he can peer into the future at an accelerated rate, giving his entourage foreknowledge of events yet to come. Can the future be changed? And what will the subject see after his own death? The unhappy protagonist of The Eye Of Purgatory (1945) sees not the real future but an increasingly aging present, where death and decay became overpowering sights. This dark, introspective novel is a powerful reflection of the notion of time and aging, and is unique in the annals of science fiction. Jacques Spitz (1896-1963) was a...
In The Experiment of Dr. Mops (1939), a man's vision is modified so that he can peer into the future at an accelerated rate, giving his entourage fore...
Richard Bessiere made his mark on 1960s French science fiction through a number of novels that featured an original blend of horror and SF. Two of his best works of the period are The Seven Rings Of Rhea (1962), in which Earth is described as seven concentric spheres with Hell at its core, and The Gardens Of The Apocalypse (1963) picturing a nightmarish post-cataclysmic Earth invaded by alien life forms, where survival is all but impossible. This edition also includes an illustrated bibliography and introduction by French SF scholar Remy Le Chevalier. Translator Brian M. Stableford has been a...
Richard Bessiere made his mark on 1960s French science fiction through a number of novels that featured an original blend of horror and SF. Two of his...
Tenebras -- a phantom-like criminal who defies all the police of Europe. Against him are arrayed the forces of Harry Dickson, the American Sherlock Holmes, and the dynamic Inspector Loustaud of the French SUretE, but also the Simpson Brothers, two ruthless American billionaires who will do anything in their power, and commit any crime, to seize the $1.5 million inheritance of young Teddy, the son of the beautiful Comtesse Dianah de Villerville.
This prodigious criminal saga, penned by Arnould Galopin, the creator of Doctor Omega, was first published in France...
Tenebras -- a phantom-like criminal who defies all the police of Europe. Against him are arrayed the forces of Harry Dickson, the American Sherlock...
Brian M. Stableford's latest novel, The Mirror of Dionysus, explores the mystery of the origins of the immortal Axel Rathenius, who lives on the artists' colony of Mnemosyne, an island off the northern coast of what in our world is called France, in the Everlasting Empire, 2,000 years after the birth of the Divine Caesar...
Rathenius is taken away from Mnemosyne to another island of Dionysus to meet the legendary Madame Minerva, also immortal, and to be initiated in the Mysteries of the god Dionysus...
Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has...
Brian M. Stableford's latest novel, The Mirror of Dionysus, explores the mystery of the origins of the immortal Axel Rathenius, who lives on the ar...
The Police Agent (1867) is a milestone in the development of crime fiction. Its eponymous hero, the cunning Mr. Porion, a.k.a. PEre Cinnamon, does not employ his detective skills to pursue a vampire-like serial killer intent on bleeding children, but rather to protect him, while simultaneously serving other predatory aristocratic interests, such as providing the lecherous King Louis XV with a steady supply of virgins.
This crime novel Ponson du Terrail wrote may seem eccentric to 21st century eyes because the genre has undergone many refinements, but it remains fascinating as an...
The Police Agent (1867) is a milestone in the development of crime fiction. Its eponymous hero, the cunning Mr. Porion, a.k.a. PEre Cinnamon, does ...
