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Synopsis

This collection of 18 proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, includes such ground-breaking tales as Charles Cros' An Interastral Drama (1872), about an unlawful love between an Earthman and a Venusian woman, Victorien Sardou's The Black Pearl (1862), the first romance of forensic science, Eugène Mouton's The End of the World (1872), depicting an ecocatastrophe precipitated by global warming generated by human industrial activity, and Louis Mullem's The Supreme Progress (1890), an imaginative tour de force of unprecedented scope predicting ideas that were later to be popularized by writers such as Olaf Stapledon. All the stories included in this volume predate the first translation into French of H.G. Wells. They are representative of a distinct tradition of romans scientifiques whose cardinal influences included astronomer Camille Flammarion and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

Table of Contensts

• Introduction (The Supreme Progress) - essay by Brian Stableford
• An Interastral Drama - (2010) - short story by Charles Cros (trans. of Un drame interastral 1872)
• The End of the World - short story by Eugène Mouton (trans. of La fin du monde 1872)
• The Supreme Progress - short fiction by Louis Mullem (trans. of Le progrès suprême 1894)
• The Paradise of Flowers - short fiction by X. B. Saintine (trans. of Le paradis des fleurs 1864)
• The Great Discovery of Animules - short fiction by X. B. Saintine (trans. of Grande découverte des animules 1864)
• The Science of Love - short fiction by Charles Cros (trans. of La science de l'amour 1874)
• A Newspaper of the Future - short fiction by Charles Cros (trans. of Le journal de l'avenir 1880)
• The Pebble That Died of Love - (1886) - short fiction by Charles Cros (trans. of Le caillou mort d'amour 1887)
• The Mirosaurus - (1885) - short fiction by Charles Epheyre (trans. of Le Mirosaurus 1893)
• Professor Bakermann's Microbe - (1890) - short story by Charles Epheyre (trans. of Le microbe du Professeur Bakermann, récit des temps futurs 1892)
• A Tale of the Future - short fiction by Paul Adam (1862-1920) (trans. of Le conte futur 1893)
• The End of a Monopoly - short fiction by Louis Mullem
• The New Year - short fiction by Louis Mullem (trans. of Fin d'année 1890)
• The Invisibility of Monsieur Gridaine - short fiction by Louis Mullem
• Club Conversation - short fiction by Louis Mullem (trans. of Causeries de cercle 1909)
• The Shadow and His Man - short fiction by Louis Mullem (trans. of L'ombre et son homme 1904)
• Chemical Eternity - short fiction by Louis Mullem (trans. of L'éternité chimique 1909)
• The Black Pearl - novelette by Victorien Sardou (trans. of La Perle Noire 1862)

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