TY - BOOK AU - Roussel,Raymond TI - Locus Solus AV - PQ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Scientists -- Fiction KW - Inventions -- Fiction KW - French fiction -- 20th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_Solus; Release date is 2006-08-31; Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Locus Solus" by Raymond Roussel is a novel published in 1914. A scientist named Martial Canterel invites colleagues to tour his estate, where he displays increasingly bizarre inventions. These include an aerial pile driver creating tooth mosaics, a water-filled glass diamond, and most remarkably, dead people revived with "resurrectine" who endlessly reenact their life's most crucial moments. The novel unfolds through detailed expositions followed by intricate explanations, creating a strange journey through Canterel's extraordinary world of mechanical wonders and macabre spectacles. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19149 ER -