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This month, Black Coat Press will publish its 100th release, The Thieves of Silence, French author Jean-Claude Dunyach’s collection of award-winning short stories.
Since its inception in the summer of 2003, Black Coat Press, under the editorship of Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, has been the foremost publisher of French science fiction and crime thrillers in the English-language.
A division of Hollywood Comics.com, LLC, Black Coat Press, named after Paul Féval’s seminal 19th century crime thriller saga The Black Coats, which it publishes, is a Encino, CA-based small press publisher whose products are listed on the Bowker’s Books in Print index and Publishers Authority Database. Its books are produced by Lightning Source, a subsidiary of Ingram Industries, Inc.
Thanks to the dedication of translators and scholars such as Brian Stableford and Frank J. Morlock, Black Coat press has published some of the most remarkable works of proto-science fiction, golden age science fiction and contemporary science fiction, as well as detective and crime thrillers, from the French language.
Among its proto- and golden age French science fiction releases are such significant works as Félix Bodin’s The Novel of the Future (1834), Charles Derennes’ The People of the Pole (1907), Arthur Galopin’s Doctor Omega (1906), Octave Joncquel & Théo Varlet’s The Martian Epic (1921), Jean de La Hire’s Nyctalope novels (1911-21), Gustave Le Rouge’s The Vampires of Mars (1908), Jules Lermina’s Panic in Paris (1910), Henri de Parville’s An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars (1865) Gaston de Pawlowski’s Journey to the Land of the 4th Dimension (1912), Albert Robida’s The Clock of the Centuries(1902) as well as two anthologies of Villiers de l’Isle-Adam stories and News from the Moon and The Germans on Venus, two anthologies of ground-breaking proto-SF stories by Brian Stableford.
Forthcoming are Georges Le Faure & Henri de Graffigny’s The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist across the Solar System (1888-96), Robida’s The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul (1879) and a five volume-set dedicated to Maurice Renard, the French H.-G. Wells.
Contemporary works include two collections by Dunyach, The Night Orchid and The Thieves of Silence and Xavier Mauméjean The League of Heroes. |
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