The Dominion of the World 3: The Psychic Spies - Softcover

Le Rouge, Gustave; Guitton, Gustave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612270972 ISBN 13: 9781612270975

Publisher: Black Coat Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 third volume of the series, after the destruction of engineer Hattison's secret citadel, the secret cabal of American billionaires, led by William Boltyn, hires the sinister Harry Madge, who plans to attack Europe with the aid of a brigade of hypnotists and psychic spies. Only French scientist Olivier Coronal, the inventor of the terrestrial torpedo, stands in the way of the final success of the Billionaires' Conspiracy...

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Coat Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612270972
• ISBN 13: 9781612270975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248