Maurice Renard 3 hr 11 min read

An immobile voyage and other singular stories carry the reader into the scientific marvelous, strange inventions and stranger consequences.

Maurice Renard's 1909 collection, by a founder of French 'scientific-marvelous' fiction, blends science and the fantastic. Inventive, elegant, influential. Read it for imaginative tales from a key figure of early French science fiction, where reason opens onto the uncanny.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 11 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).