Yves Delage (1854-1920) and Jacques Loeb carried out a series of experiments with sea-urchin eggs in the first few years of the 20th century, summarized and contextualized in Delage’s La Parthénogénèse naturelle et experimentale (1913). Although now recognized as a key exercise in what would subsequently be called “cloning,” the endeavor was regarded as little more than a curiosity at the time, and Delage became better known for his investigation of the Turin Shroud, whose authenticity he supported.
36 The author adds a footnote: “None of those presents the characteristics of a gold/silver double system.”
37 The lines are from Charles Baudelaire’s poem “La Vie antérieure” [The Anterior Life], in Les Fleurs du mal (1857).
38 The line is from Euripides’ tragedy The Trojan Women.
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G.-J. Arnaud. The Ice Company
Charles Asselineau. The Double Life
Richard Bessière. The Gardens of the Apocalypse
Albert Bleunard. Ever Smaller
Félix Bodin. The Novel of the Future
Alphonse Brown. City of Glass
Félicien Champsaur. The Human Arrow
Didier de Chousy. Ignis
Captain Danrit. Undersea Odyssey
C. I. Defontenay. Star (Psi Cassiopeia)
Charles Derennes. The People of the Pole
Georges T. Dodds. The Missing Link and Other Tales of Ape-Men
Alfred Driou. The Adventures of a Parisian Aeronaut
J.-C. Dunyach. The Night Orchid; The Thieves of Silence
Henri Duvernois. The Man Who Found Himself
Achille Eyraud. Voyage to Venus
Henri Falk. The Age of Lead
Charles de Fieux. Lamékis
Arnould Galopin. Doctor Omega
Edmond Haraucourt. Illusions of Immortality
Nathalie Henneberg. The Green Gods
Michel Jeury. Chronolysis
Gustave Kahn. The Tale of Gold and Silence
Gérard Klein. The Mote in Time’s Eye
André Laurie. Spiridon
Georges Le Faure & Henri de Graffigny. The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System (2 vols.)
Gustave Le Rouge. The Vampires of Mars; The Dominion of the World (4 vols)
Jules Lermina. Mysteryville; Panic in Paris; The Secret of Zippelius; To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers
José Moselli. Illa’s End
John-Antoine Nau. Enemy Force
Henri de Parville. An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars
Gaston de Pawlowski. Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension
Georges Pellerin. The World in 2000 Years
Henri de Régnier. A Surfeit of Mirrors
Maurice Renard. The Blue Peril; Doctor Lerne; The Doctored Man; A Man Among the Microbes; The Master of Light
Jean Richepin. The Wing
Albert Robida. The Clock of the Centuries; Chalet in the Sky
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Han Ryner. The Superhumans
Brian Stableford (anthologist) The Germans on Venus; News from the Moon; The Supreme Progress; The World Above the World; Nemoville
Jacques Spitz. The Eye of Purgatory
Kurt Steiner. Ortog
Eugène Thébault. Radio-Terror
C.-F. Tiphaigne de La Roche. Amilec
Théo Varlet. The Xenobiotic Invasion (w/Octave Joncquel). The Martian Epic; (w/André Blandin) Timeslip Troopers
Paul Vibert. The Mysterious Fluid
English adaptation and introduction Copyright 2011 by Brian Stableford.
Cover illustration Copyright 2011 by Mandy.
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