by Michael Swanwick · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253072324
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«Jack Faust» is the science fiction and alternate history novel by Michael Swanwick, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (350 pages, in French).
In Renaissance England, Doctor Jack Faust, desperate at the uselessness of his knowledge, burns his books and invokes an entity called Mephistopheles. It offers him scientific secrets that advance the Industrial Revolution by two centuries, but the price of that progress and its moral consequences prove uncertain. A speculative retelling of the Faust legend.
The novel was originally published in 1997 and was a finalist for the Hugo Award and the Sidewise Award. This French edition appeared in 2001.
For readers of speculative science fiction, alternate histories, and reinterpretations of the Faust legend.
Michael Swanwick is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s.
