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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    The Twentieth Century (March 2004)
  • Last Book:
    Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds are Recorded in the Ancient Chronicles of Francois Rebelais; (May 2025)
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds are Recorded in the Ancient Chronicles of Francois Rebelais presents a vibrant rendition of tales inspired by François Rabelais, reimagined by Albert Robida and John Bull Smith Dimitry. This work draws from t...



  • In 1965 (1920) is a amicable and breezy work, with only a slight macabre edge in its comedy, recapitulating and updating the technological innovations of The Electric Life. The history of the twentieth century sketched out in Robida’s earlier bo...



  • In Electric Life (1892), Albert Robida imagined the life of the future, imbued with all kinds of fantastic devices meant to simplify the lives of their users. The father of science fiction illustration, and the author of The Clock of the Centuries an...



  • The father of science fiction illustration, and the author of The Clock of the Centuries and The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul, Albert Robida (1848-1926), was the most significant of all of Jules Verne's successors. In A Student in 1950 (1917), Ro...



  • Pirates Mummies Cannibals Intelligent Apes Samurais Cossacks And even Saturnians Meet Saturnin Farandoul and his companions, the fearless Mandibul and the extravagant Tournesol, as they travel the Earth and beyond in a series of wild and picar...



  • Of all the authors who followed in the footsteps of Jules Verne, the most important was Albert Robida (1848-1926), a writer-artist who also became the founding father of science fiction illustration. Robida wrote and illustrated his own scientific an...



  • The Twentieth Century a unique blend of objets d art and pulp fiction, science fiction and satire was initially published in 1882 to great acclaim. Abundantly illustrated by the author, the story presents a panorama of society in the century to come....




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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Albert Robida has published 7 books.

Albert Robida does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds are Recorded in the Ancient Chronicles of Francois Rebelais;, was published in May 2025.

The first book by Albert Robida, The Twentieth Century, was published in March 2004.

No. Albert Robida does not write books in series.