The Dominion of the World 2: The Transatlantic Threat - Softcover

Le Rouge, Gustave; Guitton, Gustave

 
9781612270968: The Dominion of the World 2: The Transatlantic Threat
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1612270964 ISBN 13: 9781612270968
Verlag: Hollywood Comics, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the "Transatlantic Peril", positing a fundamental difference of culture and attitude between the United States and Europe. Despite some of its outlandishness, hindsight has lent the world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality. In the second volume of the series, as France seemed headed for war with England over colonial disputes in Africa, the secret cabal of American billionaires, led by William Boltyn, schemes to stop French scientist Arsène Golbert from completing his plans for a subatlantic railway. Meanwhile, in his secret citadel of science hidden in the Rocky Mountains, mad engineer Hattison has created an invincible army of "iron men", robots that will ensure the billionaires' victory...

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Gustave Lerouge, dit Gustave Le Rouge, né à Valognes le 22 juillet 1867 et mort à Paris le 24 février 1938, est un écrivain et journaliste français.

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Verlag
Hollywood Comics
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1612270964
ISBN 13 
9781612270968
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Anzahl der Seiten
248
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