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Amilec

Amilec

La Roche, Charles-Francois Tiphaigne De
Stableford, Brian

Paperback

FantasyScience Fiction

ISBN10: 1612270336
ISBN13: 9781612270333
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Published: Aug 31 2011
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In Amilec (1753), Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche conceived the concept of journeys through the Solar System. His extrapolation of the manner in which human seeds are used to populate other planets may seem primitive, but it is a fascinating prediction of what will eventually become cosmology and embriology. In 1760, Tiphaigne sent his characters to explore the secret land of Giphantie located deep in Africa, where a race of secret supermen live in majestic isolation watching a medium remarkably similar to television. Finally, in 1761, in The Empire of the Zaziris, Tiphaigne predicted future tales of secret invasions by imagining that mysterious beings, descendents of the sylphs and djinns of legends, live hidden among us, secretly controlling the destiny of Humankind. A proto-scientist, physician and contemporary of Voltaire, Tiphaigne de la Roche penned three fantastic tales of Swiftian satire that are also ground-breaking, foundation texts of French science fiction.

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