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Albert Robida was not only a gifted artist and the author of remarkable scientific anticipations. In a startlingly different vein, he also wrote a clasic novel, L'Horloge des Siècles [The Clock Of The Centuries] (1902), in which time started running backwards, the dead came back to life and the entire human society was thrown into utter chaos. The novel stopped when time had regressed to the battle of Waterloo, and remained one of the most striking novels ever written on this classic theme, later explored in Philip K. Dick's Counterclock World (1967), among others. Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He is also translating the works of Paul Féval and other French writers of the fantastique for Black Coat Press which also published his most two recent fantasy novels: The New Faust at the Tragicomique, The Wayward Muse and The Stones of Camelot. Contents: - The Clock of the Centuries (L'horloge des siècles, 1902); Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford. |