Jean-Marc Lofficier

Michael Shreve

Romain D'Huissier

Anthology featuring characters from the Hexagon Comics Universe, selected and introduced by Romain d'Huissier & Jean-Marc Lofficier. Stories by Cédric Burgaud, Nelly Chadour, Fabien Clavel, Tepthida Hay, Julien Heylbroeck, Romain d'Huissier, Jean-Marc Lainé, Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Ghislain Morel, Alex Nikolavitch, Yohan Odivart, Frank Schildiner and Krystoff Valla. Translations by Michael Shreve. Since the dawn of time, tales about larger-than-life heroes have fascinated humanity. The powerful Bronze Gladiator goes after a ring of child-kidnappers... Young Morgane matches wits with Robin Goodfellow... Prince Kabur of Hyperborea rids a dying city of the demons which infest it... The Man of Brass faces an incomplete, god-like entity... Sibilla investigates a haunted penthouse in Tribeca... The two Dark Flyers team up against a deadly crime cartel... Plus Homicron, Count Saint-Germain, Kit Kappa, Ozark, Stormshadow and more... Hexagon Comics is one of the oldest French comics universes, with origins going back to the 1950s. Reinvented and modernized in the early 2000s, some of its best and most original characters are featured in this collection that brings together the talents of 14 French and American sci-fi authors.

Mutations

Tales of the Hexagonverse 1

S. T. Joshi

Voltaire

Mike Shreve

In this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)--now available in English for the first time-- the famous French "philosophe "and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of religion throughout the world. Written toward the end of his life in 1769, the work was penned in the same decade as some of his more famous works--the" Philosophical Dictionary," "Questions on Miracles," and "Lord Bolingbroke's Important Examination"--all of which questioned the basic tenets of Christianity. Voltaire called himself a deist and thus he professed belief in a supreme deity. But he was always sharply critical of institutional Christianity, especially its superstitions, the hypocrisy of its clergy, and its abuse of political power. Both his deism and his critical attitude toward Christianity are manifest in "God and Human Beings," which is, in effect, one of the first works of comparative religion. Comparing Christianity to the more ancient belief systems of the Jews, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, and Arabs, he notes a common tendency to worship one supreme god, despite the host of subordinate deities in many of these religions. He also critiques the many superstitions and slavish rituals in religion generally, but he emphasizes that in this respect Christianity is no better than other faiths. Thus, the clergy's claim that Christianity is God's supreme revelation to humanity has no basis from an objective perspective. This first English translation of a classic critique of religion includes an introduction by writer, scholar, and editor S. T. Joshi, who wrote the article on Voltaire in "The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief" (edited by Tom Flynn). Anticipating many of the themes of the later Higher Criticism and rationalist critiques of religion, this incisive, witty treatise by the great French skeptic will be a welcome addition to the libraries of anyone with an interest in the philosophy of religion, intellectual history, or the Enlightenment.

God & Human Beings

Clement Duval

Marianne Enckell

A 19th-century French anarchist and criminal details his 14-year incarceration in, and eventual escape from, the penal colonies on Devil's Island. Reissue.

An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony

Outrage

Michael Shreve

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