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Émile-Auguste-Cyprien Driant was a famous French military strategist and politician, who died heroically before Verdun during World War I. Like a 19th century Tom Clancy, Driant also wrote, under the nom-de-plume of “Captain Danrit”, a number of very popular “techno-thrillers,” which he used to develop his ground-breaking military theories, especially in regards to the application…
This collection of 18 proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, includes such ground-breaking tales as Charles Cros’ An Interastral Drama (1872), about an unlawful love between an Earthman and a Venusian woman, Victorien Sardou’s The Black Pearl (1862), the first romance of forensic science, Eugène Mouton’s…
The father of science fiction illustration, and the author of The Clock of the Centuries and The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul, Albert Robida (1848-1926), was the most significant of all of Jules Verne’s successors. In A Student in 1950 (1917), Robida returns to his fictional world of 1950 that he introduced in his classic The…
Jules Lermina (1839-1915), the author of Mysteryville, Panic in Paris and To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers, was one of the most interesting authors of French romans scientifiques in the latter part of the 19th century. This collection includes The Nail (1870), featuring a prodigious detective predating Sherlock Holmes by 20 years, the classic Burn This!…
Writer/artist Rick Veitch’s career bridges the underground comix of the 1970s, mainstream DC and Vertigo Comics, and the self-publishing revolution of the 1980s and 1990s. In that extraordinary body of work, Brat Pack(R) remains a landmark, and Teen Angels & New Mutants is the first book-length, in-depth study of a creator and graphic novel worthy…
