Anet, Claude

Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.

Pseudonym of Swiss athlete (he was the premier French tennis player in 1892) and author Jean Schopfer (1868-1931). His sf novel La fin d'un monde (1925; trans Jeffery E Jeffery as The End of a World 1927), which is Prehistoric SF, describes the cultural destruction of an Ice Age people by a more advanced culture. [JC]

see also: Origin of Man.

Jean Schopfer

born Morges, Switzerland: 28 May 1868

died Paris: 9 January 1931

works

• La fin d'un monde (Paris: Grasset, 1925) [hb/]
  • The End of a World (London/New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1927) [trans by Jeffery E Jeffery of above: illus/hb/John Austen]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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