by Thomas Day · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070348909
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«L'automate de Nuremberg» is the science fiction novel by Thomas Day, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (120 pages, in French).
During the Napoleonic campaigns, the chess-playing automaton Melchior Hauser sets out in search of his creator, Viktor Hauser, to ask him whether he has a soul. The journey takes him from the Russian court to the Jewish quarter of Nuremberg, from the fogs of London to the heat of Africa, in an initiatory adventure that blends genres and holds surprises in store.
The work was originally published in 2007 and this 2008 edition belongs to the Folio 2 € collection.
For readers of science fiction and fantasy, especially those seeking a short novel with Napoleonic setting and steampunk elements.
Thomas Day was an English writer, lawyer and abolitionist. He was well known for the book The History of Sandford and Merton (1783–1789) which emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals, for his writings against slavery, for campaigning both for and against American independence, and for his project applying his educational ideals to young girls with the aim of raising a wife for himself.
