July, 2009

Rosny manifesto 1887

Submitted by JJ Pierce on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 12:27
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A friend did a somewhat rough translation of the preface by J.H. Rosny to his first collection of storiies, L'Immolation (1887), which included his first sf story "Les Xipehuz" (translated 80 years later by Damon Knight as "The Shapes"). No doubt Brian Stableford will do a better translaton of the preface as part pf his Rosny projecft for Black Coat Prss. But even in this version, it strikes me that it anticipates the attitude, as opposed to the dialectic of Zamytain's "On Synthetism" (1923).

--J.J.P.

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