The Conqueror of Death

By Paul Combes and Camille Debans

In the 1890s, a generation before Hugo Gernsback, Louis Figuier, editor of the French popular science magazine La Science Illustr e, 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 Illustr e, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612272304
• ISBN13: 9781612272306
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Hollywood Comics
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"