Lermina, J. (1895) La Bataille de Strasbourg
Jules Lermina (1895) La Bataille de Strasbourg [The Battle of Strasbourg] An early novel on the theme of the “yellow peril”. Set in the 1920s, though written in the 1890s, Jules Lermina’s The Battle of…
Category Archives: French Language Fiction
Gastine, L. (1912) Les Torpilleurs de l’air
Louis Gastine (1912) Les Torpilleurs de l’air: Prodigieux exploits d’un aviateur français, Paris, La Maison du Livre Moderne. Translated into English (1913) as War in Space: Or, an Air-Craft War Between France and Germany , London,…
Loir, M. (1895) Naval Battles of the Future
Maurice Loir (1895) Naval Battles of the Future Maurice Loir’s (1895) Naval Battles of the Future takes the form of a series of journal entries by a perceptive and philosophical naval officer aboard a French…
Barillet-Lagargousse (1885) La guerre finale, histoire fantastique
Barillet-Lagargousse (1885) La guerre finale, histoire fantastique par Barillet-Lagargousse, ingénieur destructeur, membre de plusieurs sociétés philanthropiques et savantes. Barillet-Lagargousse’s The Final War (1885), takes the European arms race of the late 19th century to its…
Demolder , E. (1901) L’Agonie d’Albion
Eugene Demolder (1901) L’Agonie d’Albion Tells the story of the defeat and fall of the British Empire.
Danrit, E. (1901) La guerre fatale
Capitaine Danrit [E.A. Driant] (1901) La guerre fatale: France-Angleterre In 1888 Driant began writing his first guerre imaginaire (“imaginary war”) novel, which he was to publish using the pseudonym “Capitaine Danrit”. This was La Guerre…
Danrit, E. (1889) La Guerre en Ballon
Danrit, E. (1889) La Guerre en Ballon The third book in Danrit’s trilogy La Guerre de demain. Full text (in French) at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b598073;view=thumb;seq=1
Giffard, P. (1908) La Guerre Infernale
Pierre Giffard (1908) La Guerre Infernale – illustrated by Albert Robida. La Guerre Infernale was an adventure novel for children, published as a serial, an edition appearing every Saturday. The 520 illustrations were created by…
Robida, A. (1883) La Guerre au Vingtième Siècle
Albert Robida (1883) La Guerre au Vingtième Siècle A fantastical view of warfare in the 20C from the French illustrator Robida involving aircraft, tanks, chemical and biological weapons. Robida is said to have shown a…
Verne, J. (1904) Master of the World
Jules Verne (1904) Master of the World [Maître du monde]. A sequel to Robur the Conqueror. As a fantastical novel rather than a prediction of future war it, like Robur the Conqueror, is somewhat out…
Verne, J. (1886) Robur the Conqueror
Jules Verne (1886) Robur the Conqueror [Robur-le-Conquérant] [aka. The Clipper of the Clouds] Although somewhat outside the scope of Invasion / Future War Literature the subject matter is highly relevant as a science-fiction writer’s view…