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Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of
the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the
planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic
powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet
while trying to return to his fiancee on Earth. Through his
travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is
also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting
combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a
vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly
creatures who might be closer to earthly humans than we would care
to believe. Originally published in French as two separate volumes,
translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of
the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to
English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and
masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.
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 outlandishness, hindsight has lent the
world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The
Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality. In Volume 1, a
secret cabal of American billionaires, led by William Boltyn, would
like nothing more than to crush Europe, or at least subject it to
harsh economic domination, and eventually become masters of the
world. To that end, they scheme to use a deadly array of highly
advanced weapons invented by Engineer Hattison and an army of
psychics under the command of the sinister Harry Madge. Their grand
plan, however, is opposed by the heroic endeavors of a handful of
Frenchmen...
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 outlandishness, hindsight has lent the
world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The
Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality. In the second volume
of the series, as France seemed headed for war with England over
colonial disputes in Africa, the secret cabal of American
billionaires, led by William Boltyn, schemes to stop French
scientist Arsene Golbert from completing his plans for a
subatlantic railway. Meanwhile, in his secret citadel of science
hidden in the Rocky Mountains, mad engineer Hattison has created an
invincible army of "iron men," robots that will ensure the
billionaires' victory...
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.
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 outlandishness, hindsight has lent the
world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The
Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality. In the fourth and
final volume of the series, Harry Madge's brigade of psychic spies
sent to infiltrate Europe on behalf of the secret cabal of American
billionaires, led by William Boltyn, is sowing chaos and despair,
but the invention of a new "psychic accumulator" by Arsene Golbert
enables good will to triumph, banishing hatred, ambition, cupidity
and egotism, and opening the doors to a new utopian society...
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 outlandishness, hindsight has lent the
world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The
Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality. In the third volume
of the series, after the destruction of engineer Hattison's secret
citadel, the secret cabal of American billionaires, led by William
Boltyn, hires the sinister Harry Madge, who plans to attack Europe
with the aid of a brigade of hypnotists and psychic spies. Only
French scientist Olivier Coronal, the inventor of the terrestrial
torpedo, stands in the way of the final success of the
Billionaires' Conspiracy...
Sandwiched between Arnould Galopin's Doctor Omega (1906) and Edgar
Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars (1912), Gustave Le Rouge's
masterpiece, Le Prisonnier de la Plante Mars (1908) and its sequel,
La Guerre des Vampires (1909), are a Martian Odyssey in which young
engineer Robert Darvel is dispatched to Mars ny the psychic powers
of Hindu Brahmins. On the Red Planet, Darvel runs afoul of hostile,
bat-winged, blood-sucking natives, a once-powerful civilization now
ruled by the Great Brain. The entity eventually sends Darvel back
to Earth, unfortunately with some of the vampires. The second
volume deals with the war of the vampires back on Earth. Planetary
romance blends here with "cosmic horror" as the characters switch
from swashbuckling he-men to helpless bundles of gibbering terror.
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