Joseph Mery

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  • Cover image for The Tower of Destiny

    The Tower of Destiny

    $22.95

    Joseph Méry (1798-1866) was the nearest French equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe as a ground-breaking pioneer of speculative fiction. The title piece is a significant exercise in alternate history, in which Méry imagined that Napoleon’s life took a different turn in Egypt in 1799. The Truth About Creation argues in a mock-serious manner that there…

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    On the Brink of the World’s End

    $24.95

    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,…

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