Gautier, Émile
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(1853-1937) French anarchist, imprisoned 1883-1885 for making speeches, and journalist specializing in popular science; best known for the nonfiction Le Darwinisme social ["Social Darwinism"] (1880), a text which familiarized the term Social Darwinism for French readers. Solo he published an sf tale, "Le Désiré" (1892 La Science Illustrée), and with Marie-Francois Goron, he wrote the Fleur de Bagne sequence – Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain (1901 Le Journal; 1902 3vols; trans Brian Stableford as Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 1: From Devil's Island to the City of Lights 2013 pod, Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 1: From Devil's Island to the City of Lights 2013 pod, Volume 2: Cosmopolitan Pirates 2013 pod, and Volume 3: Scientific Detectives and Bandits 2013) [for full titles see Checklist], in which an amoral master criminal (see Antiheroes), armed with a supply of base metals transmuted into gold (see Transmutation) – supplied to him by a naive anarchist Scientist – takes over Paris, aided by a heavier-than-air flying machine. [JC]
Émile Gautier
born Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France: 19 January 1853
died 1937
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Fleur de Bagne
- Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain: 1: De Cayenne à la Place Vendôme (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1902) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [first appeared 1901 Le Journal: Fleur de Bagne: binding unknown/]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 1: From Devil's Island to the City of Lights (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: introduction by translator to all three volumes: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain: 2: Pirates Cosmopolites (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1902) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [Fleur de Bagne: binding unknown/]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 2: Cosmopolitan Pirates (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain: 3: Détectives et Bandits Scientifiques (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1902) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [Fleur de Bagne: binding unknown/]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 3: Scientific Detectives and Bandits (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [omni of volumes 1, 2 and 3 above: trans by Brian Stableford: Fleur de Bagne: pb/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 3: Scientific Detectives and Bandits (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Marie-François Goron, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
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