The Future Began 80,000 Years Ago --- The thrilling science fantasy adventure which re-creates, through the mists of time, our unthinkable past. Most of the tribe are dead or dying after the battle. But worse, they have been robbed of their most scared possession - FIRE! So three young warriors must brave a world of untamed savagery during their search for survival itself in Quest for Fire. Now an extraordinary 20th Century-Fox motion picture, filmed on three continents, for which Desmond Morris and Anthony Burgess created new forms of primitive gesture and language.

Quest for Fire

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Rosny-Aine, J. H.

Science Fiction

Penguin

La Femme disparue (French Edition)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Quest for Fire, written by J. -H. Rosny aîné, was originally published in France in 1911 as La Guerre du Feu (The War of Fire). It has been translated into eleven languages and was made into a major motion picture in 1981 by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Mr. Rosny served as president of the Académie Goncourt, the famous French literary society which was founded in 1903 and still operates today. Rosny left behind a substantial amount of fiction, but very little of his work has been translated into English. As result of that he has always remained in the shadow of Jules Verne, the father of Scientific Romance. He is best known for his prehistoric tales, but he also wrote Science Fiction and was first to use the word astronaut (astronautique). Quest for Fire is Rosny’s best loved work. It is a classic example of the “Hero’s Journey,” and we are enthralled as Naoh, a Neanderthal warrior, leads a small band of brothers into dangerous lands to capture a strange, powerful and beloved beast: The Fire. Facing one crisis after another, Naoh returns exalted and transformed—a true hero to his People. The accompanying Afterword delves into the science behind the story and provides notes on this new translation, the first in over 50 years. New translation by Jonathan Eeds. Illustrated by Culpeo S. Fox.

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Bruin Books, LLC

J.-H. Rosny Aîné is the second most important figure in modern French science fiction after Jules Verne. Rosny, who was a member of the distinguished Goncourt literary academy, was also the first writer to straddle the line between mainstream literature and science fiction. Until now, Rosny has best been known to the English-speaking public for his prehistoric thriller, Quest for Fire. In The Xipehuz, men encounter inorganic aliens, with whom all forms of communication prove impossible. In Another World, a mutant whose vision is superior to that of ordinary men discovers that humans share the Earth with two other species, the invisible Moedigen and Vuren. In The Death of the Earth, Earth, in the far future, has become a desert, and the last descendents of humanity are slowly being replaced by a new species, the metal-based "Ferromagnetals." In The Navigators of Space, astronauts travel to Mars in a spaceship powered by artificial gravity and come in contact with a dying race that is gentle, peaceful, six-eyed and three-legged. This is a series of seven volumes, six of which are translated and annotated by Brian Stableford, devoted to presenting the classic works of this giant of French science fiction.

The Navigators of Space

Literary

Hollywood Comics

This is the second in a series of seven volumes presenting the classic works of J.-H. Rosny Aîné, the second most important figure in French science fiction after Jules Verne. Until now, Rosny, a member of the Goncourt literary academy, has best been known to the English-speaking public for his prehistoric thriller, Quest for Fire. Predating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rosny creates Lost Worlds of a different kind, where variant species are the dominant races. The Siberian valley of Nymphaeum (1893) is home to purple-skinned, water-breathing men. The Depths Of Kyamo and The Wonderful Cave Country (1896) are underground journeys featuring giant, intelligent bats. The Boar Men (1929) inhabit a mysterious island. The World of the Variants (1939) feature a parallel world which only some privileged humans can visit.

The World of the Variants

In The Young Vampire (1920), a London girl is possessed by an extra-dimensional entity which mutates her body and turns her into a living vampire. The Supernatural Assassin (1923) tells the tale of a murderous wraith. Finally, Companions of the Universe (1934) is Rosny's last, great novel, a brilliant scientific romance in which a secret group of physicists attempts to breach the limits of the universe beyond photons, sub-particles and wave-sequences; while at the same time offering an in-depth study of the perversity of human sexual relationships. This is the sixth in a series of seven volumes translated and annotated by Brian Stableford presenting the classic works of J.-H. Rosny Aîné, the second most important figure in French science fiction after Jules Verne. Until now, Rosny, a member of the Goncourt literary academy, has best been known to the English-speaking public for his prehistoric thriller, Quest for Fire.

The Young Vampire

Fantasy

La guerre du feu (French Edition)

La guerre du feu

Children's Books

POCHE JEUNESSE

Genre Fiction

Фоліо

Classics

Marabout

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