The Conqueror of Death (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781612272306)

In the 1890s, a generation before Hugo Gernsback, Louis Figuier, editor of the French popular science magazine La Science Illustrée, made a concerted effort to define and delimit the genre of roman scientifique, using that term to head a series of feuilletons that ran in his magazine from 1888 to 1905. This is a new collection of eight French proto-science fiction stories taken from the pages of La Science Illustrée, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. Included here are Vernian romances, tall tales featuring the dramatic extrapolation of natural phenomena, stories highlighting the scientific obsessions of geniuses with its social and psychological costs, and stories of everyday life in which scientific knowledge comes to play a significant role.

Author: Brian Stableford,Camille Debans,Paul Combes
ISBN-10: 1612272304
ISBN-13: 9781612272306
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2013
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d