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This volume contains three thought provoking novels, considered "early science fiction", by author Camille Flammarion, one of the most interesting characters produced by the 19th century, and a definitive influence on authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and many others. The three novels in this volume (Lumen, Last Days of the World and Urania) are deeply interesting and full of wisdom. Lumen consist of a series of dialogues between a man and a disembodied spirit which is free to roam the Universe at will. The novel includes observations about the implications of the finite velocity of light, and many images of otherworldly life adapted to Alien circumstances La Fin du Monde, or Omega: The Last Days of the World in 1894), is a science fiction novel about a comet colliding with the Earth, followed by several million years leading up to the gradual death of the planet. Flammarion thought at some point that the Halley Comet in 1910 would end life on earth. Urania is divided into three parts. The first is an imaginary voyage through the universe, the second the love story that sets up a third part: a wonderful discussion of Mars and its view of Earth. The title comes from Urania, one of The Nine Muses who presided over Astronomy. and whose celestial glance Inspired and directed the chorus of the Spheres.