De Sélènes, Pierre
Entry updated 9 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of French author Armand Ludovic Eugène Bétolaud de La Drable (1808-1888), whose pen-surname means something like "of the Moon". Un Monde Inconnu: Deux Ans sur la Lune (1896; trans Brian Stableford as An Unknown World: Two Years on the Moon 2014), is an unauthorized sequel (see Sequels by Other Hands) to Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and its own sequel, Around the Moon (1870), featuring Verne's characters, the Gun Club, and a similar propulsion system. On the Moon, they come across the Underground Utopia of the Meolicenes, whose civilization boasts advanced Technology and other advantages. [JC]
Armand Ludovic Eugène Bétolaud de La Drable
born France: 5 July 1808
died France: 29 August 1888
works
- Un Monde Inconnu: Deux Ans sur la Lune (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1896) [binding unknown/]
- An Unknown World: Two Years on the Moon (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2014) [trans by Brian Stableford of the above: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
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