[LITTERATURE] - BOUSSENARD (Louis)Livre Rare Book
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10000 YEARS IN A BLOCK OF ICE. Translated From the French . by John Paret
189825474London New York: F. Tennyson Neely Publisher 1898. First edition in English. Inked names and date to front free endpaper tanning to edges of text block upper corners bumped bubbling to cloth of front cover light wear to spine ends a good to very good copy. 25474. Octavo pp. 3-5 6-256 257-258: ads note: text complete despite gap in pagination original olive-green ribbed cloth front and spine panels stamped in silver and red. A translation of DIX MILLE ANS DANS UN BLOC DE GLACE 1889. A sequel of sorts to LES SECRETS DE MONSIEUR SYNTHESE 1888-9. This same monsieur the sole survivor of a polar expedition is resuscitated after having been in suspended animation for 10000 years by the Cerebrals an advanced race of tiny humanoids a cross of Chinese and Negroes possessing tremendous mental powers which enable them among other things to fly and to communicate with Mars. Versins notes that the book is remarkable for its lack of the sort of racism that characterizes most adventure fiction of this period. It is also for a sleeper-awakes-in-the-distant-utopian-future SF tale unusually short. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-21 and 1981 1-25. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 246. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 087. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 24. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 38. Locke Voyages in Space 41. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 71. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction 1972 pp. 126-27. Bleiler 1978 p. 28. Reginald 01674. F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher unknown
