Science fiction novel
The science fiction novel (the term of “Science-fiction” will appear only in 1926) is born from the meeting between the traditions of the imaginary voyage, the Utopie and the novels of adventures. Published in 1865, Of the Earth to the Moon of Jules Verne appears as a new type of account in which science is the true center of the account, because the author shows the psychological and especially social consequences there change.
All the end of the 19th century oscillates between two poles: progress like simple source of inventions more or less fabulous ( eccentric Voyages (1894 - 1914) of Paul d' Ivoi or the machines dreamed which haunt the Journal of the Voyages ) and accounts with didactic aiming ( Uranie of Camille Flammarion in 1889, stellar discoveries of the hero of Faure and Graffigny) or speculative ( the Twentieth century of Albert Robida in 1884).
The Belle Time is the point of organ of French anticipation. Almost all the broad topics are approached: extraterrestrial ( the blue Danger of Maurice Fox in 1912 and the fulgurating Wheel of Jean of Hire in 1908), space flights ( Prisoners of the planet Mars of Gustave the Red in 1908), future war: the captain Danrit produces with the chain of immense successes resting on the fear of the other and the French superiority, catastrophes ( the Death of the Earth of Rosny groin in 1910), insane scientist ( Doctor Lerne of Renard in 1908)…
The Great War shows that science can also be destroying and carries a fatal blow to the science fiction to the Frenchwoman. In spite of some attempts in the Inter-war period, it is necessary to await the Années 1950 to see re-appearing significantly this kind in the French Littérature.
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