The Light Barrier
THE LIGHT BARRIER
by Nathalie Charles Henneberg
translated by William Oarlock
cover by Aurélien Maccarelli
US$XX - 6x9 tpb, XXX p. - ISBN-13: 978-1-64932-XXX-X
Nathalie Henneberg (1910-1977) remains a unique voice in the history of French imaginative literature. This is the second volume of a multi-volume collection of her works to be released by Black Coat Press.
Volume 1 : The Green Gods, translated by C. J. Cherryh, was first published to critical acclaim in 2010. This volume collects The Light Barrier and Bellatrix Gamma (both 1959), translated by William Oarlock.
The former tells the story of the first faster-than-light starship;tyhe latyter is the tale of castaways on an alien world becoming entangled in the power struggle of its elemental inhabitants.
Combining classic French and Golden Age American SF reminiscent of Jack Williamson and Robert Heinlein, with “Old World” literature, sagas and epics, her writing precedes the “New Wave” of the 1960s and later mythopoetic space operas by Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, C.J. Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer and Joan D. Vinge.
Introduction
Le Mur de la lumière (1959)
La Rosée du Soleil (1959)