Historical Fiction
French Tales of Cataclysms
2022·420 pages
A collection of French proto-sf stories from 1802-1928, exploring bizarre cataclysms and humanity's fight for survival.
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A collection of French proto-sf stories from 1802-1928, exploring bizarre cataclysms and humanity's fight for survival.
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The term "cataclysm" is defined as a large-scale, violent event in the natural world, or a sudden and equally violent political or social upheaval. Such concepts run throughout the history of the French roman scientifique-a genre that some might call proto-sf-from the 18th century to today. In this thematic collection we have gathered ten remarkable short stories by J.-H. Rosny Aîné, Camille Debans, René Pujol, Pierre Véron, Alfred Franklin, etc., published between 1802 and 1928, plus two full-l...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Mass deaths from floods, quakes, cosmic disasters; central survival peril
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Science-framed disasters; no fantasy magic systems depicted
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Some tales frame upheaval as social or political catastrophe
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Recurring mass suffering and survival hardship in catastrophes
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