Vibert, Paul
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of French author Edmond-Celestin-Paul Vibert (1851-1918) who, in Pour Lire en Automobile: nouvelles fantastiques ["For Reading in an Automobile: Fantastic Stories"] (coll 1901; trans Brian Stableford as The Mysterious Fluid coll 2011), espouses the theory that electricity is the universal Power Source underlying all other forms of energy. Most of his collection comprises is made up of illustrative vignettes, most of them sufficiently "advanced" in their descriptions of the powers of electricity to count as sf; some of the more sustained tales show the influence of Jules Verne. Vibert was an impassioned defender of the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935). [JC]
Edmond-Celestin-Paul Vibert
born 1851
died 1918
works
- Pour Lire en Automobile: nouvelles fantastiques ["For Reading in an Automobile: Fantastic Stories"] (Paris: Berge-Levrault, 1901) [coll: binding unknown/]
- The Mysterious Fluid (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2011) [coll: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: pb/Yoz]
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