Title: La fin des livres

Title: La fin des livres Title Record # 1835703
Author: Octave Uzanne
Date: 1894-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: hidden-knowledge.com
Language: French

Synopsis: English summary at the "hidden-knowledge" web link. The narrator describes what he believes will happen during the 20th century, including: Books will be replaced by audio books; iPods; master readers will read plays, poems, and sing songs; "Our grandchildren will use [smart phones] everywhere, at every restaurant table, public transportation, ..."; newspapers will be replaced by [radio announcers], "the scenes of fiction and adventure novels will be performed [in movies] by well-costumed actors", etc.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1894	English	The End of Books
1909^ⓘ Translated by an unknown translator Russian title means "Books in the Next Century".	Russian	Книга будущего века^?Kniga budushchego veka [as by Октав Юзан^?Oktav Yuzan ]
2021^ⓘTranslated by Marcus Seibert	German	Das Ende der Bücher^?Das Ende der Buecher

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Scribner's Magazine, August 1894	1894-08-00	ed. Editors of Scribner's Magazine	Charles Scribner's Sons				octavo^?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	mag
La fin des livres	2008-10-00	Octave Uzanne	Éditions Manucius	978-2-84578-090-3		41	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	chap
The End of Books	2013-08-00	Octave Uzanne	Baen Books (The Ron Miller Science Fiction Classics Collection)	978-1-61824-993-7	$3.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap	Ron Miller
Туннель сквозь Землю^?Tunnel' skvoz' Zemlyu	2016-02-22	ed. uncredited	Тардис^?Tardis ( Фантастический раритет^?Fantasticheskiy raritet #334)			164	unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	anth	Б. Ортега^?B. Ortega , Пабло Торресийя^?Pablo Torresiya Pablo Torrecilla
Das Ende der Bücher^?Das Ende der Buecher	2021-02-09	Octave Uzanne	Favoritenpresse	978-3-96849-001-4	€15.00^?€: Euro	[48]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Steph von Reiswitz

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Reviews

Review [German] by Horst Illmer (2021) in phantastisch!, #83