The next sf work from this important early period is Le voyageur imprudent ( 1944 with postscript 1958 trans Margaret Sansone Scouten as Future Times Three 1958), a rather pessimistic Time-Travel story with the usual Time Paradoxes, partly set in the same future world as the previous novel. His first novel to be translated, Ravage ( 1943 trans Damon Knight as Ashes, Ashes 1967), describes a France driven inwards into rural quiescence in 2052 by a great Disaster, as the Sun becomes volatile, causing the sudden disappearance of electricity from the world the corrupting effects of Technology are described scathingly. (1911-1985) French author, active in later life as a screenwriter and journalist.
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