J.-H. Rosny aîné is one of the most crucial French science fabrication authors , but he ’s well known in the United States for writing the 1911 novel that became the movie Quest for Fire . Now , at last , three of his novellas have been translated into English andcollected into one volumeby Wesleyan University imperativeness , and they take us from the dawn of humankind to the last of the world .
One story involves archaic cave people encountering weird animal — bluish , semitransparent cone — which have strange , almost magical top executive . The 2nd story tell the early lifespan of a young mutant , in a world that also features foreign , almost godlike creatures . And then the third floor shoot place in the far hereafter , after life is almost extinguished on Earth except for a few lingering human — and unearthly creature called the ferromagnetics .
Over in the Washington Post , Michael Dirda praise the beauty and audaciousness of Rosny ’s writing :
Never having meet any of his fiction , I was unprepared for the power and looker of “ The Xipehuz , ” “ Another World ” and “ The Death of the Earth . ” There ’s nothing hokey or dated about these startling vision of Otherness , although they were first published more than a century ago . You wo n’t read beneficial science - fable story – or even effective stories – this twelvemonth … These brilliant works by Rosny underscore how often American readers – and I let in myself – simply neglect the artistically challenging and exceptionally entertaining skill fable write in oral communication other than English .
[ Washington Post ]
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