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The Bald Giants (Paperback)
Brian Stableford; Maurice Renard, Edmond Haraucourt
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R652
Discovery Miles 6 520
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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. Dedicated to Wells,
Maurice Renard's Doctor Lerne (1908) features a mad scientist who
performs organ transplants not only between men and animals, but
also with plants, and even machines. It is the first 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. This volume also includes "Mr Dupont's Vacation"
(1905), a story about dinosaurs returning to life, and Renard's
1909 revolutionary manifesto on "Scientific Marvel Fiction."
"The Master of Light" (1933) is a murder mystery solved thanks to
luminite, a glass-like substance which slows down light as it
passes through, and through which one can actually witness the
past. It is the fifth of a series of five volumes, translated and
annotated by Stableford, devoted to presenting the classic works of
this pioneering giant of French science fiction.
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 Doctored Man, a
collection of 14 stories written between 1913 and 1939, features a
man blinded during WWI who, through the grafting of "electroscopic"
eyes, can see into other dimensions, the classic The Man Who Wanted
To Be Invisible in which Renard exposes the scientific fallacy
inherent in Wells' famous novel, as well as other ground-breaking
tales of time-travel, prehistoric wing-men, intangibility, robotic
cars and interplanetary travel This is the fourth in 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.
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.
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. A Man Among the
Microbes (1908) features an "incredible shrinking man" who, through
miniaturization, reaches an inhabited micro-world where he meets
scientifically-advanced aliens. This volume also includes "The
Motionless Voyage" (1909), a story about an experimental
anti-gravity flying machine. This is 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.
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