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The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic French…
The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the “Transatlantic Peril”, positing a fundamental difference of culture and attitude between the United States and Europe. Despite some of its…
The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the “Transatlantic Peril”, positing a fundamental difference of culture and attitude between the United States and Europe. Despite some of its…
The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the “Transatlantic Peril”, positing a fundamental difference of culture and attitude between the United States and Europe. Despite some of its…
The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the “Transatlantic Peril”, positing a fundamental difference of culture and attitude between the United States and Europe. Despite some of its…
The Year 5865 was published in 1865. It is a remarkable novel, consisting of a first-person narrative related by a character living 4000 years hence, after various disasters have obliterated almost all the documents relating to the world with which we are familiar. In consequence, the narrator’s knowledge of the reader’s world is severely limited…
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…
Night of the Nyctalope is a collection of 17 stories featuring Leo Saint-Clair, France’s premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare original tale published in 1944 by the character’s creator, Jean de La Hire, in which Leo saves a young woman from the clutches of…
This is a new collection of seven French proto-science fiction stories devoted to explorations of the future, as imagined in the 1850s and early 1900s, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. This collection includes fantastic explorations of Future Paris by Théophile Gautier, Arsène Houssaye, Victor Fournel as well as…
Pierre Pelot is one of the grandmasters of modern French science fiction. His writing career spans over 40 years and includes over 200 novels in various genres, from westerns to science fiction, and crime thrillers to prehistoric novels. His books have been translated into twenty languages. However, this is his first translation into English. The…
The sinister, ghostly presence of the mysterious Belphegor is haunting the Louvre, seeking the Treasure of the Kings of France. Against him are pitted the indomitable Chantecoq, the King of the Detectives, and the fearless journalist Jacques Bellegarde. A duel to the death begins between the murderous Phantom of the Louvre and his enemies throughout…
Long before Charlie’s Angels, Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, and even Judith Lee, there was Ethel Boston, the first female consulting detective in America, a former associate of Nick Carter, trained by famous detective William Hopkins. Miss Boston was the prototype of the New Woman, who believed and fought for sexual and legal equality with men….
The Future City signed “Alain le Drimeur” (a Frenchification of “Alan the Dreamer”) was published in 1890, probably inspired by Edward Bellamy’s best-selling Looking Backward, 2000-1887. The Future City postulates that the Conservatives left France in 1891 to emigrate en masse to the island of La Réunion, where they established a Roman Catholic kingdom that…
Félicien Champsaur’s Ouha, King of the Apes (1923) is the thematic “missing link” between Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes (1912) and Edgar Wallace’s King Kong (1933). In it, Ouha, an exceptional ape from the jungles of Borneo, is educated and transformed into the “Napoleon of Apes” by a well-meaning American scientist. But tragically,…
In The Human Microbes, a man unjustly accused of a murder by an evil mastermind manages to escape the guillotine and embarks on a quest for revenge that will draw in its wake a cast of characters, including mad doctors, lost children, strange gypsies, Irish revolutionaries, Russian anarchists and Utopians. In 1883, the notorious anarchist…
In The New World, the Arctic Utopian community founded at the end of The Human Microbes by Dr. Gaël, comprised of the victims of tyranny rescued by Captain Josiah and his “phantom brig,” is threatened by the evil Judge Roll Wolff, intent on destroying it to cover his crimes… In 1883, the notorious anarchist Louise…
