News from the Moon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781932983890)

This collection of nine proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, ranges from Louis-S bastien Mercier's 1768 opening tale, in which the hero communicates with the dead through a beam that anticipates a modern-day laser, to an 1887 story by Guy de Maupassant that speculates on Martian life. In between, we have tales of a heart transplant, a device that can see through time and an alien dragon. The book also includes Albert Robida's classic novella "The Monkey King" in which Saturnin Farandoul, shipwrecked as a baby and raised by apes on a Pacific Island, visits the Mysterious Island and joins forces with Captain Nemo to battle the savage pirate hordes of Bora-Bora. Stories by Georges Eekhoud, St phane Mallarm , Guy de Maupassant, Louis-S bastien Mercier, Eug ne Mouton, Fernand Noat, Jean Richepin, Adrien Robert and Albert Robida. This edition includes a historical introduction and notes by Stableford.

Author: Brian Stableford
ISBN-10: 1932983899
ISBN-13: 9781932983890
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d