BOUSSENARD, Louis Henri

(1847-1910)

   French writer. His popular scientific romances, which have some speculative content, often appeared in Journal des Voyages. He is best known for Les secrets de Monsieur Synthese ("The Secrets of Mr Synthesis") (1888-9), and Dix mille ans dans un bloc de glace (1889; trans John Paret as 10,000 Years in a Block of Ice 1898 US), a SLEEPER-AWAKES tale in which the hero discovers a unified world- UTOPIA peopled by small men - Cerebrals - who are descended from Chinese and black Africans and can fly by the power of thought.

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   Other works: Les francais au pole nord ("The French at the North Pole") (1893); L'ile en feu ("Island Ablaze") (1898).

   See also: CRYONICS; FRANCE.