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• Posthumous Correspondence • [Les Posthumes] • short fiction by Restif de La Bretonne (trans. of Les posthumes, lettres reçues après la mort du mari par sa femme qui le croit à Florence (excerpt) 1802)
• Perfectibility • short fiction by Charles Nodier (trans. of Hurlubleu grand Manifafa d'Hurlubière ou la perfectibilité: Histoire progressive 1833)
• The Story of a Naiad • short fiction by Louis Ulbach (trans. of Histoire d'une naïade 1858)
• Astronomical Journeys • short fiction by X. B. Saintine (trans. of Courses astronomiques 1864)
• War in 1894 • short fiction by Adrien Robert (trans. of La guerre en 1894 1867)
• The Origin of Life • short fiction by Eugène Mouton (trans. of L'origine de la vie 1877)
• Quiet House • (1885) • short fiction by Jules Lermina
• The Automaton • short fiction by Remy de Gourmont (trans. of L'automate 1889)
• The Future Terror • short fiction by Marcel Schwob (trans. of La terreur future 1891)
• A Rival of Edison • short fiction by Louis Mullem (trans. of Un rival d'Edison 1909)
• Erebium • short fiction by Alphonse Allais (trans. of L'Erebium 1904)
• The Germans on Venus • short fiction by André Mas (trans. of Les Allemands sur Vénus 1914)
• Telepathy • short fiction by
  Théo Varlet^?Theo Varlet
  (trans. of Télépathie 1920)