The Future Eve

( French - L'Ève future - 1886 )

novel by Auguste Villiers De L'Isle Adam

translated by Florence Crewe-Jones

serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly 18 / 25 December, 1926, 1, 8, 15, 22 January, 1927

Published: Frank A. Munsey - magazine - 1926 / 7
ISBN: none

Coronado Press - hardback - 1981 ( titled "Eve of the Future Eden", translated by Marilyn Gaddis Rose )
ISBN: 0872911500 / 9780872911505

University of Illinois Press - hardback - 1983 ( titled "Tomorrow's Eve" , translated by Robert Martin )
ISBN: 0252009428 / 9780252009426

University of Illinois Press - paperback - 2000
ISBN: 0252069552 / 9780252069550

Read Books - trade paperback - 2011 ( POD ) ( translation, presume F. C.-J., not stated )
ISBN: 1447406699 / 9781447406693

included in abridged form in "The Frankenstein Omnibus" ( F. C.-J. translation
Chartwell Books - hardback - 1994
ISBN: 0785800417 / 9780785800415

Orion - hardback - 1994
ISBN: 1857975502 / 9781857975505

Orion - trade paperback - 1994
ISBN: 1857975510 / 9781857975512

Orion - paperback - 1995
ISBN: 1857978048 / 9781857978049


synopsis
A brilliant scientist builds an android (he actually calls her an andraiad). She has intelligence and a personality of sorts, and in fact she has a soul, but her body is just a metal shell. The scientist happens to have a friend, and the friend is in love with a woman possessed of extraordinary beauty, but a sadly commonplace soul. So why not combine the noble soul of the metal woman with the superb body and face of his young friend’s mistress? So far it may sound like a fairly typical mad scientist gothic tale, but it isn’t. It’s much stranger, and much more metaphysical, with all kinds of speculations about the nature of reality, about dreams and life, what it means to be human, and suchlike matters.

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