Gastine, Louis
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1858-1935) French author, often on subjects relating to airplane technology and air travel; a translated novel of sf interest is Les Torpilleurs de l'air: Prodigieux exploits d'un aviateur français (1912; trans G H Marchat as War in Space: Or, an Air-Craft War Between France and Germany 1913) with Léon Perrin (not acknowledged in the translation), a Future War tale set within Earth's atmosphere (not in space); a tale soon to be overtaken by events. [JC]
Louis Jules Gastine
born 1858
died 1935 [1930 has also been given]
works
- Les Torpilleurs de l'air: Prodigieux exploits d'un aviateur français (Paris: La Maison du Livre Moderne, 1912) with Léon Perrin [pb/Armegnol]
- War in Space: A Grand Romance of Aircraft Warfare Between France and Germany (London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co, 1913) [trans by G H Marchat of the above: co-author is not credited: hb/nonpictorial]
- War in Space: Or, an Air-Craft War Between France and Germany (London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co, 1913) [vt of the above: pb/J Embleton]
- War in Space: A Grand Romance of Aircraft Warfare Between France and Germany (London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co, 1913) [trans by G H Marchat of the above: co-author is not credited: hb/nonpictorial]
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