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Science Fiction literature, also known as sci fi and sf, is one of
the more recent genres, and also one of the more popular. It only
truly emerged during the 20th century, and has not stopped growing
in terms of authors, titles and readers. It has also evolved into a
variety of subgenres, ranging from hard sf to soft sf, from Utopias
to dystopias, with more than a smattering of horror, detective, war
and feminist titles. Stableford covers all these aspects and more,
taking a close look at what has become a booming industry, with its
specialized writers, publishers, and fan magazines. The compendium
includes not only sf from the United States and United Kingdom, but
also France, Russia, and many others. While the chronology charts
the genre's dazzling growth, and the dictionary section looks at
writers, books, themes, and other specifics, the introduction
provides exceptional insight into what Science Fiction Literature
is all about.
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific
speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the
vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore
the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science
Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has
propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science
fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss
the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the
present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present,
when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science
and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works
speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter
expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and
adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not
to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary
fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of
influences, including how fictional representations of science
affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main
focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including
film and video games, are explored and, because science is an
international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are
discussed as needed.
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific
speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the
vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore
the future effects of science on events and human beings. "Science
Fact and Science" "Fiction" examines in one volume how science has
propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science
fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss
the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the
present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present,
when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science
and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works
speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter
expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and
adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the "Encyclopedia "is
not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in
literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow
andcounterflow of influences, including how fictional
representations of science affect how we view its practice and
disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms
of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored
and, because science is an international matter, works from
non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
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Hauntings (Paperback)
Edouard Dujardin; Translated by Brian Stableford
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R378
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Errant Vice (Paperback)
Jean Lorrain; Translated by Brian Stableford
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R655
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The modern literary archetype of the mad scientist was wonderfully
incarnated in the French proto-science fiction saga of The
Mysterious Dr. Cornelius, a sprawling novel serialized in eighteen
volumes in 1912-13, written by the prolific Gustave Le Rouge,
author of The Vampires of Mars and The Dominion of the World. Dr.
Cornelius Kramm and his brother, Fritz, rule an international
criminal empire called the Red Hand. Cornelius is a brilliant
surgeon, nicknamed the "Sculptor of Human Flesh" because of his
diabolical ability to alter people's likenesses through the science
of carnoplasty. One of Cornelius' agents is the sadistic sociopath
Baruch Jorgell, the son of millionaire Fred Jorgell. Cornelius uses
his surgical prowess to change Baruch's face, making him
unrecognizable. But the Red Hand's growing, global, evil web
eventually causes the creation of an alliance of heroes, who band
together to fight it: Dr. Prosper Bondonnat, a brilliant French
biologist and botanist; American billionaire William Dorgan and his
son, Harry, who is in love Baruch's kind-hearted sister, Isadora;
and finally, Lord Burydan, a colorful, freebooting adventurer.
Gustave Le Rouge (1867-1938) was one of the authors who most
embodied the evolution of modern science fiction, moving it away
from its juvenile beginnings by incorporating real emotions into
his stories, bridging the gap between Vernian and Wellsian science
fiction.
The modern literary archetype of the mad scientist was wonderfully
incarnated in the French proto-science fiction saga of The
Mysterious Dr. Cornelius, a sprawling novel serialized in eighteen
volumes in 1912-13, written by the prolific Gustave Le Rouge,
author of The Vampires of Mars and The Dominion of the World. Dr.
Cornelius Kramm and his brother, Fritz, rule an international
criminal empire called the Red Hand. Cornelius is a brilliant
surgeon, nicknamed the "Sculptor of Human Flesh" because of his
diabolical ability to alter people's likenesses through the science
of carnoplasty. One of Cornelius' agents is the sadistic sociopath
Baruch Jorgell, the son of millionaire Fred Jorgell. Cornelius uses
his surgical prowess to change Baruch's face, making him
unrecognizable. But the Red Hand's growing, global, evil web
eventually causes the creation of an alliance of heroes, who band
together to fight it: Dr. Prosper Bondonnat, a brilliant French
biologist and botanist; American billionaire William Dorgan and his
son, Harry, who is in love Baruch's kind-hearted sister, Isadora;
and finally, Lord Burydan, a colorful, freebooting adventurer.
Gustave Le Rouge (1867-1938) was one of the authors who most
embodied the evolution of modern science fiction, moving it away
from its juvenile beginnings by incorporating real emotions into
his stories, bridging the gap between Vernian and Wellsian science
fiction.
The modern literary archetype of the mad scientist was wonderfully
incarnated in the French proto-science fiction saga of The
Mysterious Dr. Cornelius, a sprawling novel serialized in eighteen
volumes in 1912-13, written by the prolific Gustave Le Rouge,
author of The Vampires of Mars and The Dominion of the World. Dr.
Cornelius Kramm and his brother, Fritz, rule an international
criminal empire called the Red Hand. Cornelius is a brilliant
surgeon, nicknamed the "Sculptor of Human Flesh" because of his
diabolical ability to alter people's likenesses through the science
of carnoplasty. One of Cornelius' agents is the sadistic sociopath
Baruch Jorgell, the son of millionaire Fred Jorgell. Cornelius uses
his surgical prowess to change Baruch's face, making him
unrecognizable. But the Red Hand's growing, global, evil web
eventually causes the creation of an alliance of heroes, who band
together to fight it: Dr. Prosper Bondonnat, a brilliant French
biologist and botanist; American billionaire William Dorgan and his
son, Harry, who is in love Baruch's kind-hearted sister, Isadora;
and finally, Lord Burydan, a colorful, freebooting adventurer.
Gustave Le Rouge (1867-1938) was one of the authors who most
embodied the evolution of modern science fiction, moving it away
from its juvenile beginnings by incorporating real emotions into
his stories, bridging the gap between Vernian and Wellsian science
fiction.
Champavert was the archetypal collection of the French "contes
cruels," and the book still remains among the cruellest of them
all. It is also one of the greatest collections of short stories
ever published; the only reason that it has never been translated
before is that the job was so challenging that only an insane
person would tackle it. Petrus Borel the Lycanthrope (as he called
himself) declared himself dead before the book was published, but
not many people believed him, even though he was the most honest
man in Paris. Here are seven classic tales of horror, fantasy, and
the twistings of fate, including the final story, "Champavert, the
Lycanthrope," translated from the French for the very first time by
the well-known fantastist and critic, Brian Stableford.
During an August heat-wave, the Comte de Saint-Germain seeks the
help of detective Auguste Dupin. Someone--or someTHING--is trying
to kill him! The Comte has inherited a magical cello and a
mysterious sealed box. A psychic vampire (an "egregore") intends to
use the cello and a magical musical composition to steal another
soul. Can Dupin and his faithful companion unravel the puzzle in
time to save the Comte?
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Panic in Paris (Paperback)
Jules Lermina; Adapted by Brian Stableford
bundle available
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R588
Discovery Miles 5 880
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It all begins innocently enough when the corpse of a London boxer
is discovered at sunrise on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. But
the man was reportedly seen in London only a couple of hours
earlier... A great English detective and France's leading
investigative reporter team up to solve a baffling mystery that
will ultimately take them to a network of vast caverns under Paris
inhabited by prehistoric monsters, waiting to be released... Jules
Lermina's Panic in Paris (1910) combines the tradition of utopian
fiction with both the scientific advances of the 19th century and
the pseudoscientific trappings of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming
Race (1871). It also features some intriguing anticipations of two
key works by Arthur Conan Doyle, prefiguring both The Lost World
(1912) and The Poison Belt (1913).
In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" (flip one book over to
read the second title), here is the tenth Wildside Double:
VALDEMAR'S DAUGHTER: A ROMANCE OF MESMERISM, by Brian
Stableford
Following the sad demise of Ernest Valdemar, as related in the
story by Edgar Allan Poe, his mortal remains are sent to his
daughter in Paris--but go astray--and detective Auguste Dupin must
track them down. The Comte de Saint-Germain seems implicated in the
mystery. Meanwhile, the great writer Balzac lies at death's door,
convinced that only Valdemar's body can save him. Will Dupin thwart
his adversary in the nick of time?
THE MAD TRIST: A ROMANCE OF BIBLIOMANIA, by Brian Stableford
The Comte de Saint-Germain has come into possession of The Mad
Trist, the book from which Edgar Allan Poe and Roderick Usher read
aloud before the collapse recorded in "The Fall of the House of
Usher." He intends it as a gift to detective Auguste Dupin, but
Dupin's friend, Richard Carstairs, cannot deliver the volume
immediately. Richard is unintimidated by the prospect of reading a
supposedly cursed book--after all, Dupin has a whole shelf full of
them A classic tale of horror.
1821. Thanks to the technique discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it
is now possible to resurrect the dead. Scotland Yard Superintendent
Gregory Temple, on the trail of criminal mastermind John Devil, who
plans to use such technology to reshape the world, is now forced to
team up with Paris Morgue supervisor Jean-Pierre Severin, Malo de
Treguern and Frankenstein's own creation to confront a cabal of
vampires led by Count Szandor and the inhumanly beautiful Countess
Marcian Gregoryi who also seek Frankenstein's secret...
Frankenstein and The Vampire Countess is the second volume in a
prodigious Alternate History saga which embraces the works of Mary
Shelley, Paul Feval, Alexandre Dumas and others, written by Brian
M. Stableford, an acknowledged master of the genre, author of the
critically acclaimed The Plurality of Worlds.
From 1895, when the means of visiting the future through
drug-induced "timeshadowing" is discovered by Professor
Copplestone, to 12 million years AD, when the Universal Engine
seeks to determine the cosmos' ultimate fate, the vast tapestry of
time is the theater of a time war between the Overmen, descendents
of the vampires, Humanity, and the shadowy intelligence that waits
at the End of Time. Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, Count
Dracula, the reluctant vampire, the mercurial Oscar Wilde, William
Hope Hodgson, freshly returned from the Night Land of the Great
War, the visionary H. G. Wells, Alfred Jarry, Camille Flammarion,
and many other figures from the literary firmament, become pawns
and players in a conflict that spans the entire course of universal
history. Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since
1965. He has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy
novels, as well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He is
also translating the works of Paul Fval and other French writers of
the fantastique for Black Coat Press which has published his most
recent fantasy novels: The Shadow of Frankenstein and The Stones of
Camelot.
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