Maurice Renard 4 hr 29 min read

A scientist masters the exchange of minds between bodies, and the philosophical and moral consequences ripple outward in an allegorical tale dedicated to H. G. Wells.

Maurice Renard's 1923 novel, by a founder of French 'scientific-marvelous' fiction, is an inventive tale of transplanted souls. Thoughtful, imaginative, influential. Read it for an ingenious early body-swap novel from a French master, explicitly written in the tradition of Wells.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).