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We continue our five-volume series of translations of Maurice Renard with A MAN AMONG THE MICROBES, a ground-breaking 1908 novel anticipating THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and Ray Cummings' GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM by decades. Here, accidental microverse explorer Fréchambault reaches an inhabited micro-world inside the atom where he meets scientifically-advanced aliens. This volume also includes "The Motionless Voyage" (1909), a story about an experimental anti-gravity flying machine, and other science-fiction stories from the prolific mind of Maurice Renard. The cover is by Gilles Francescano.
Then it's one more Jules Lermina novel, which, like TO-HO last month, was originally serialized in The Journal des Voyages in 1905. In MYSTERYVILLE, explorer Alcide Trémalet is driven away from China by the Boxers and accidentally discovers a secret city inside a lost valley, founded by Protestant exiles from the religious wars of 18th century France. Tremalet's arrival triggers a civil war between those who seek to rejoin, and perhaps conquer, the outside world with their advanced technology, and those who wish to preserve their isolation. The cover is by Vincent Laik.
Finally, our third March release is the opening salvo in a seven volume series of translations of the works of J.-H. Rosny Aîné ("The Elder") best known worldwide for his classic QUEST FOR FIRE. This first volume collects Rosny's tales of humans meeting alien, often incomprehensible, intelligences. THE XIPEHUZ in the days of Ancient Babylon (1887), the Ferromagnetals in the far future during THE DEATH OF THE EARTH (1910), the invisible Moedingen who share the world with us today in ANOTHER WORLD (1895), and finally two races of Martians in THE NAVIGATORS OF SPACE (1925), also the first story even of the romance between a human and an alien. The cover is also by Vincent Laik.
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