FRENCH TALES OF THE RED PLANET (VOLUME 1) IBD

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The French have alwaysáhad a strongáaffinity for interplanetary fiction since Cyrano de Bergerac releasedáhis History of the States and Empires of the Moonáin 1657. But none of the celewstial bodies have attracted more attention than the planet Mars.We have gathered in this thematic collection five remarkable stories,áplus a full-length noveláfrom 1908 by H. Gayar devoted to the exploration of Mars and its inhabitants. These rangeáfromas early as 1766, when Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert used a genie to take her heroes to Mars,áto 1802 ,whenáNicolas-Edmé Restif de la BretonneâÇÖs superpowered hero Multipliandre stopped on the Red Planet during is exploration of the cosmos,áand to 1889 whenáGeorges Le Faure & Henri de GraffignyâÇÖs ambitious Franco-Russian space travelers used a fragment of Mercury torn away by a comet, to reach our Fourth Planet.These stories are all unique and highly original andáprovide exemplars ofáthe rich tradition of fantastic voyages, in the broadáspectrum of French fantastic literature.TABLE OF CONTENTSáIntroduction by J.-M. & Randy LofficierMarie-Anne de Roumier-Robert: The Voyages of Lord Seaton to the Seven Planets (1766) (excerpt)Nicolas-Edmé Restif de la Bretonne: Posthumous Correspondence (1802) (excerpt)X.B. Saintine: Astronomical Journeys (1864)Guy de Maupassant: Martian Mankind (1887)Georges Le Faure & Henri de Graffigny: The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System (1889) (excerpt)H. Gayar: The Marvelous Adventures of SergeáMyrandhal on Mars (1906)