The Blue Peril (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935558170)

Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early 20th century, Maurice Renard coined the term "Scientific Marvel Fiction" to pen a series of gripping, ground-breaking stories that owe as much to Edgar Allan Poe as they do to H.-G. Wells. Until now, Renard was best known to the English-speaking public for his thrice-filmed thriller, The Hands of Orlac. The Blue Peril (1911), which many consider to be Renard's masterpiece, features invisible alien creatures which live in high Earth orbit and which, feeling threatened by man's incursion into space, retaliate by fishing for men the way we capture fish, and studying our species. It is the third of a series of five volumes, translated and annotated by Brian Stableford, devoted to presenting the classic works of this pioneering giant of French science fiction.

Author: Maurice Renard
ISBN-10: 193555817X
ISBN-13: 9781935558170
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2010
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Asimov's Science Fiction 07/01/2011 pg. 111