TRAVELLING TOWARDS EPSILON

NEL paperback, June 1978. Illustration by Joe Petagno.

"French science fiction has a distinguished and impressive a history as our own, dating back to the seventeenth century and beyond. Here is an anthology of some of its best short stories, edited and introduced by Maxim Jakubowski, who is himself an acknowledged master of the art. There is Delta, a love story set on a planet where there are three sexes ; The Gunboat Dread, a grotesque piece of science fantasy ; How's Business?, the story of an interplanetary soap company ; and others, all masterpieces in their own right."

Contains:

The Gunboat Dread by Daniel Walther

Where The Astronauts Meet by Suzanne Malaval

How's Business? by Jacques Sternberg

Jonah by Gérard Klein

Until Proof To The Contrary by Bernard Mathon

Towards The High Tower by Michel Jeury

It's Only Pinball! by Philippe Curval

Summer In The Death Zone by Maxim Jakubowski

Thomas by Dominique Douay

Delta by Christine Renard and Claude F. Cheinisse

The Bubbles by Julia Verlanger

Stars, Here I Come! by Jean-Pierre Andrevon

The Leap by Tony Cartano

Wings In The Night by Nathalie Henneberg