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77 The Javanese yellow-blue adder often hides in rice paddies, and more commonly in shrubby woods. Its normal length is from nine to ten feet, but some have been seen so large as to be compared to large trees. This snake, whose strength makes it a dreadful foe, feeds on birds and even some fairly large animals. See Mémoires de la socièté de Batavia for 1787.
78 Monkeys’ horror of snakes is well known; the mere sight of the skin of one of these reptiles is enough to have them collapse. The traveler Levaillant had killed a large snake during a hunt. “I noticed in this instance the fear that these animals instill in monkeys. It was impossible to bring Kees anywhere near the snake I had just obtained, regardless of the fact that it was quite dead.” Voyage en Afrique, vol. II, p. 258. This fear is quite natural, for monkeys, who by their light-footedness and their habit of sleeping in trees escape the predations of lions, tigers and other ferocious beasts, even those of man, have no more fearful enemy than these hideous reptiles, which can creep up and surprise them even in the tallest branches.
79 If one is to believe Mr. Desfontaines (note sent to Mr. de Buffon), the complexion of different monkeys is prone to change when they are frightened. Nat. Hist. addit. to art. Pithèque.
80 Allusion to Le mie prigioni (1832), a popularly celebrated prison journal by Silvio Pellico (1789-1854), an Italian writer, teacher and editor imprisoned for eight years between 1822 and 1830 by the Austrian invaders of Italy. [Ed.]
81 Poissy is a town in the north of France. [Ed.]
82 Charles V (Quint means “five” in Middle French), ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, also known as Charles of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria (1500-1558). Members of the Habsburg royal family, Charles Quint included, suffered from mandibular prognathism (protrusion of the lower jaw), thought to be genetically determined by inbreeding. [Ed.]
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02 Henri Allorge. The Great Cataclysm
14 G.-J. Arnaud. The Ice Company
61 Charles Asselineau. The Double Life
23 Richard Bessière. The Gardens of the Apocalypse
26 Albert Bleunard. Ever Smaller
06 Félix Bodin. The Novel of the Future
39 Alphonse Brown. City of Glass
40 Félicien Champsaur. The Human Arrow
03 Didier de Chousy. Ignis
67 Captain Danrit. Undersea Odyssey
17 C. I. Defontenay. Star (Psi Cassiopeia)
05 Charles Derennes. The People of the Pole
68 Georges T. Dodds. The Missing Link and Other Tales of Ape-Men
49 Alfred Driou. The Adventures of a Parisian Aeronaut
-- J.-C. Dunyach. The Night Orchid;
-- J.-C. Dunyach. The Thieves of Silence
10 Henri Duvernois. The Man Who Found Himself
08 Achille Eyraud. Voyage to Venus
01 Henri Falk. The Age of Lead
51 Charles de Fieux. Lamékis
31 Arnould Galopin. Doctor Omega
Arnould Galopin. Doctor Omega & The Shadowmen
57 Edmond Haraucourt. Illusions of Immortality
24 Nathalie Henneberg. The Green Gods
29 Michel Jeury. Chronolysis
55 Gustave Kahn. The Tale of Gold and Silence
30 Gérard Klein. The Mote in Time’s Eye
50 André Laurie. Spiridon
52 Gabriel de Lautrec. The Vengeance of the Oval Portrait
27-28 Georges Le Faure & Henri de Graffigny. The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System (2 vols.)
07 Jules Lermina. Mysteryville
25 Jules Lermina. Panic in Paris
32 Jules Lermina. The Secret of Zippelius
66 Jules Lermina. To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers
15 Gustave Le Rouge. The Vampires of Mars
Gustave Le Rouge. The Transatlantic Threat
Gustave Le Rouge. The Psychic Spies
Gustave Le Rouge. The Victims Victorious
Xavier Mauméjean. The League of Heroes
Joseph Méry. The Tower of Destiny
Hippolyte Mettais. The Year 5865
11 José Moselli. Illa’s End
38 John-Antoine Nau. Enemy Force
04 Henri de Parville. An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars
21 Gaston de Pawlowski. Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension
56 Georges Pellerin. The World in 2000 Years
60 Henri de Régnier. A Surfeit of Mirrors
33 Maurice Renard. The Blue Peril
34 Maurice Renard. Doctor Lerne
35 Maurice Renard. The Doctored Man
36 Maurice Renard. A Man Among the Microbes
37 Maurice Renard. The Master of Light
41 Jean Richepin. The Wing
12 Albert Robida. The Clock of the Centuries
62 Albert Robida. Chalet in the Sky
Albert Robida. The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul
46 J.-H. Rosny Aîné. The Givreuse Enigma
45 J.-H. Rosny Aîné. The Mysterious Force
43 J.-H. Rosny Aîné. The Navigators of Space
48 J.-H. Rosny Aîné. Vamireh
44 J.-H. Rosny Aîné. The World of the Variants
47 J.-H. Rosny Aîné. The Young Vampire
J.-H. Rosny Aîné. Helgvor of the Blue River
24 Marcel Rouff. Journey to the Inverted World
09 Han Ryner. The Superhumans
20 Brian Stableford. The Germans on Venus
19 Brian Stableford. News from the Moon
63 Brian Stableford. The Supreme Progress
64 Brian Stableford. The World Above the World
65 Brian Stableford. Nemoville
42 Jacques Spitz. The Eye of Purgatory
13 Kurt Steiner. Ortog
18 Eugène Thébault. Radio-Terror
58 C.-F. Tiphaigne de La Roche. Amilec
53 Théo Varlet. The Xenobiotic Invasion (w/Octave Joncquel)
16 Théo Varlet. The Martian Epic; (w/André Blandin)
59 Théo Varlet. Timeslip Troopers
54 Paul Vibert. The Mysterious Fluid
English adaptation Copyright 2011 by Georges T. Dodds.
Annotations 2011 by Paul Wessels.
Cover illustration Copyright 2011 by Mike Hoffman.
Introduction Copyright 2011 by Jean-Marc Lofficier.
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