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A legendary warrior from Mars’ ancient past. A struggling young writer from 1827 Baltimore. Soon, cosmic events put in motion by the Enchanter Montressor and his ward Ligeia cause the two to meet. Gullivar Jones and Egar Allan Poe must then learn to work together, if they are to stop the machinations of Rodrik-Usher the…
A super-powered alien becomes stranded on Earth. A prequel to Image Comics’ 2003 series, STRANGERS. Foreword by Marv Wolfman.
Of all the authors who followed in the footsteps of Jules Verne, the most important was Albert Robida (1848-1926), a writer-artist who also became the founding father of science fiction illustration. Robida wrote and illustrated his own scientific anticipations, such as The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul (1879) and The Twentieth Century (1883). The Clock of…
Welcome to the first of four volumes collecting the complete weekly “Video Views” columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette. Here is the ‘blur’ of Bissette’s comprehensive weekly columns covering the endless flow of video and DVD releases from June 1999 to March 2000. He brings uncanny focus to everything…
The second of four volumes collecting the complete weekly “Video Views” columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of January to November 2000.
For over a century, the Black Coats have ransacked Europe, accumulating wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. The location of their treasure is known only by their godfather, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, but now some members of the High Council of the criminal brotherhood have banded together to form the Companions of the Treasure, a cabal-within-the-cabal which…
Sandwiched between Arnould Galopin’s Doctor Omega (1906) and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars (1912), Gustave Le Rouge’s masterpiece, Le Prisonnier de la Planète Mars (1908) and its sequel, La Guerre des Vampires (1909), are a Martian Odyssey in which young engineer Robert Darvel is dispatched to Mars ny the psychic powers of Hindu…
After a fight in a seedy bar leaves three men dead, the police arrest a man who claims to be a circus performer. But a young detective named Lecoq suspects the man isn’t who he claims to be, and that there is more at stake than meets the eye… Written in 1869, Monsieur Lecoq is…
Written between 1895 and 1912, Gaston de Pawlowski’s Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension predates by almost 20 years Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men. In this prodigious future history, we shall visit the singular era of the Leviathan, when a colossal entity enveloped men like cells in a gigantic body, the time…
During an expedition to the North Pole, French aeronauts Jean-Louis de Venasque and Jacques Ceintras stumble upon an alien society of technologically-advanced reptilian humanoids living in a secret enclave that has been isolated from the world for millions of years. Charles Derennes (1882-1930) was one of the pioneers of French science fiction who followed in…
August 2005. As Hurricane Katrina is preparing to strike New Orleans, Hugo Van Helsing, the modern-day descendent of that notorious family, has come to the Big Easy to investigate the mysterious death of his uncle. From the French Quarter to St. Louis Cemetery No.1, from the Garden District to Bayou St. John, Hugo must untangle…
The Martian Epic, written in 1921, is a ground-breaking novel on several levels. First, as a sequel of sorts to H.-G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, which is treated here as a prophetic vision heralding the all-out, destructive Martian attack of 1978. Second, as a post-cataclysmic epic, in which a handful of scientists battle hordes…
JOHN DOUGLAS (“J.D.”) EMERSON was found as a baby, mysteriously abandoned in the Pennsylvania Mountains. Now grown-up, young JAYDEE discovers that he has the power to change into any beast he chooses. But what is the secret of his origins and inhuman power?… Tom Meadows, a California teenager, is transported across space to the Empire…
The hulkish Chéri-Bibi, framed for a murder which he did not commit, escapes from Devil’s Island by having the dying Marquis du Touchais’ face grafted upon his own by a mad surgeon. But fate will not easily relinquish its prey and Chéri-Bibi discovers that his newfound freedom and fortune have come at a terrible price….
Felix Bodin’s The Novel of the Future was first published in 1834. Although it attracted little attention at the time, it has since been solidly established as a landmark work within the canon of futuristic science fiction. As a prediction of life in the second half of 20th century, The Novel of the Future scores…
What if a meteorite dug up by a Colorado oil prospector turned out to contain a mummified body believed to originate on Mars? Initially written in 1864 as a hoax by the science correspondent of a French newspaper, An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars immediately caught the attention of Jules Verne’s publisher who released it…
