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READ AN EXCERPT
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF A RUSSIAN SCIENTIST
ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM
(2 VOLUMES)
by Georges Le Faure & Henri de Graffigny
adapted by Brian Stableford
The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System is an ambitious Vernian cosmic saga written between 1888 and 1896 by Georges
Le Faure and Henri de Graffigny. Where Verne had limited his hero Hector Servadac to traveling on a comet, Le Faure and de
Graffigny tell the detailed story of the exploration of the Solar System -- and beyond.
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VOLUME I
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In this first volume, the amazing Professor Mikhail Ossipoff of the Scientific Institute of St. Petersburg launches a spaceship from a canon built inside a volcano. The crew, consisting of Ossipoff, his daughter Selena, her fiancé Gontran de Flammermont, French polymath Alcide Fricoulet and American tycoon Jonathan Farenheit, travel to the Moon where they encounter an amazing ancient civilization.
When Selena is taken prisoner by the evil Fedor Sharp, who has stolen Ossipoff's secrets and reached the Moon before they did, the heroes pursue him in a jet-propelled craft to Venus, then in a solar-powered ship to Mercury. After many adventures on the Inner Planets, they embark on a comet and reach Mars, where new dangers threaten…
"The historical importance of The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist is derived from the fact that it was a highly ambitious attempt to hybridize action-adventure fiction and the popularization of science to produce a new kind of science fiction, one that has much in common with hard science fiction." Brian Stableford.
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VOLUME II
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In this second volume, Professor Ossipoff and his fearless crew, after their harrowing adventures on Mars, pursue their rival Fedor Sharp through the storms of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. Then, chancing upon a mean of faster-than-light propulsion, after a tour of Uranus and Neptune, they embark on the first-ever journey out of the Solar System, to Alpha Centauri and beyond… Meanwhile, thanks to Tuttle's Comet, the insidious Sharp manages to return to Earth, where he plans to steal Ossipoff's discoveries…
"The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist is the longest scientific romance ever written, and it was not until the final years of the 20th century that the genre produced a handful of longer works. It is the first novel to attempt a tour of the entire Solar System, and to venture outside by means of faster-than-light travel." Brian Stableford
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:
- Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'un Savant Russe [The
Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist] by Georges Le Faure and Henri
de Graffigny
Foreword by Camille Flammarion
1. La Lune [The Moon] (1888)
2. Le Soleil et les Petites Planètes [The Sun and the Small Planets] (1889)
3. Les Planètes Géantes et les Comètes [The Giant Planets
And The Comets] (1891)
4. Le Désert Sidéral [The Sidereal Desert]
(1896)
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.