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    Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars

    Gustave Le Rouge (Author), David Beus (Translated by), Brian Evenson (Translated by), William Ambler (Introduction by)

    9780803218963

    Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2015

    416 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    "The best novel of one of the most important SF writers in France at the dawn of the twentieth century. Gustave Le Rouge was one of the first to portray the overlap between scientific technology and psychic phenomena to explore a host of new cognitive, aesthetic, and speculative frontiers. In so doing, he helped to launch a new literary genre."—Arthur Evans, author of Jules Verne Rediscovered and managing editor of Science Fiction Studies 

    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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