Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars
Published on 1. July 2015
416 pages
978-0-8032-7713-7 (ISBN)
Description
Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet while trying to return to his fiancee on Earth. Through his travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly creatures who might be closer to earthly humans than we would care to believe.
Originally published in French as two separate volumes, translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.
Originally published in French as two separate volumes, translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.
Reviews / Votes
"The best novel of one of the most important SF writers in France at the dawn of the twentieth century. Gustave Le Rouge was one of the first to portray the overlap between scientific technology and psychic phenomena to explore a host of new cognitive, aesthetic, and speculative frontiers. In so doing, he helped to launch a new literary genre."-Arthur Evans, author of Jules Verne Rediscovered and managing editor of Science Fiction StudiesMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Nebraska
United States
Publishing group
University of Nebraska Press
File size
0,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-7713-7 (9780803277137)
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Persons
Gustave Le Rouge (1867-1938) was a French writer of early science fiction. His masterpiece vampire novels charted an innovative course for early science fiction. David Beus is an assistant professor of international cultural studies at Brigham Young University-Hawai'i. He translated, with Brian Evenson, Christian Gailly's novel Red Haze (Nebraska, 2005). Brian Evenson is the Royce Professor of Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University. He is the author of more than a dozen novels and translations, including Immobility, Windeye, and Altmann's Tongue (Nebraska, 2002). William Ambler lives and writes in Rhode Island. His work can be found at the Huffington Post and Word and Film.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction by William Ambler
- The Prisoner of the Planet Mars
- Part One
- I. A Mysterious Message
- II. Ralph Pitcher's Home
- III. Missing
- IV. Yarmouth Street
- V. The Castle of Energy
- VI. Marvels
- VII. The Catastrophe
- VIII. The Awakening
- Part Two
- I. The Wilderness
- II. Dead from Joy
- III. The Conquest of Fire
- IV. The White Beast
- V. The Vampire
- VI. Captain Wad's Experiment
- VII. The Martian Village
- VIII. Public Festivities
- IX. War with the Idols
- X. Nocturnal Battle
- XI. Explorations
- XII. Progress
- XIII. The Crystal Mountain
- XIV. The Photographs
- XV. "Ro-bert Dar-vel"
- XVI. Darkness
- Translator's Note
- The War of the Vampires
- Part One: The Invisibles
- I. Zarouk
- II. The Villa des Lentisques
- III. A Meal Worthy of Lucullus
- IV. The Invisible Being
- V. The Catastrophe
- VI. A Strange Meteorite
- VII. A Potent Cure
- Part Two: The Martian Mystery
- I. Robert Darvel's Tale
- II. After the Victory
- III. The Aerophytes
- IV. The Glass Tower
- V. Arsenals and Catacombs
- VI. The Opal Helmet
- VII. The Isle of Death
- VIII. The Road Home
- Part Three: The Last of the Vampires
- I. Nocturnal Phantasms
- II. The Pursuit
- III. Explanations
- Footnotes
- About Gustave Le Rouge
- About David Beus
- About Brian Evenson
- About William Ambler
- Series List
