Verne et al. ...

[Dave Monroe]

.. but what I could really use is the translation of Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's L'eve
future (Tomorrow's Eve) here that The U of Illinois Press hasn't seen fit to reprint
since 1980, despite the steady flow of papers thereupon I see (and there's a nice
recent full-length study out recently as well, Marie Lathers' The Aesthetics of
Artifice).  Might be of interest to V. fans here, featuring as it does a female, er,
android (gynoid? fembot, to wax all "Six Million Dollar Man"? Whatever).  Thomas
Edison (who was still alive at the time) is the inventor thereof in the novel.  See
also, of course, E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman."   Which also reminds me, why
hasn't the excellent surrealist revival house, Exact Change (Damon and Naomi of
Galaxie 500, and, later, er, Damon and Naomi) republished Raymond Roussel's Locus
Solus and Impressions of Africa yet?  There are excerpts from either in that Roussel
anthology out (How I Wrote Certain of My Books), but ... but, well, more
nineteenth-to-turn-of-the-century French fantastic literature in translation, I say
...