Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars

Name: Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803218963
Price: 24.23 EUR
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By (author): Gustave Le Rouge

Translated by: Brian Evenson, David Beus

Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet while trying to return to his fiancée on Earth. Through his travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly creatures who might be closer to earthly humans than we would care to believe.

Originally published in French as two separate volumes, translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.

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Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780803218963

About Gustave Le Rouge

Gustave Le Rouge (18671938) was a French writer of early science fiction. His masterpiece vampire novels charted an innovative course for early science fiction. David Beus is an assistant professor of international cultural studies at Brigham Young UniversityHawaii. He translated with Brian Evenson Christian Gaillys novel Red Haze (Nebraska 2005). Brian Evenson is the Royce Professor of Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University. He is the author of more than a dozen novels and translations including Immobility Windeye and Altmanns Tongue (Nebraska 2002). William Ambler lives and writes in Rhode Island. His work can be found at the Huffington Post and Word and Film.