(#152778) UN AUTRE MONDE. J.-H Rosny aîné, Joseph Henri Honoré Boëx.

UN AUTRE MONDE. Paris: Librairie Plon. E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, Rue Garancière, [1898]. 12mo, pp. [1-4] 1-298 [299: printer's imprint] [300: blank], original yellow wrappers printed in black. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Rosny on the half title page. Includes the title novella "Another World," a classic parallel world story, and twenty-eight other stories. SF scholar George Slusser convincingly argues that Rosny should be considered the third parent of modern science fiction, along with Verne and Wells, and especially the pathfinder for what some today call "hard" science fiction. "On the eve of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 and, ultimately, of World War I, the single author who best embodied the evolution of a subset of modern science fiction away from the juvenile, one-dimensional scientific anticipations of Verne, or the pulp serials of d'Ivoi, La Hire and Le Rouge, to a more mature, literary form was Belgian author J.-H. Rosny Aîné -- the 'Elder,' to distinguish him from his younger brother, also a writer. Rosney Aîné was very much like H. G. Wells or Olaf Stapledon in his concepts and his way of dealing with them in his novels. He was, without a doubt, the second most important figure after Verne in the history of modern French science fiction ... Like Verne, Rosny exerted a powerful influence on French science fiction ... Finally, Rosny was, if not the creator, the author who virtually defined the sub-genre of the prehistoric novel and the Lost World story in French literature." - Lofficier and Lofficier, p. 343. Versins, p. 777. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 6-140. Bound with original wrappers preserved in a contemporary binding of quarter green leather and marbled boards. The spine panel is sunned, the interior and the original paper wrappers are fine. An uncommon book rarely found signed or inscribed. (#152778).

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