pseudonym include De New York à Brest en Sept Heures [New York to Brest in Seven Hours] (1888), which predicted a transatlantic tunnel; Le Secret du Mage (The Secret of the Magician) (1890), in which evidence of an advanced prehistoric is discovered; Le Rubis du Grand Lama [The Ruby of the Great Lama] (1894), which features a steam-powered flying island; Atlantis (1895), which describes how the mythical kingdom has survived under a glass dome at the bottom of the sea near the Azores; Le Maître de l'Abîme (The Master of the Abyss) (1905), which features a revolutionary submarine, and finally Spiridon le Muet (Spiridon The Mute_) (1907), a novel about a human-sized, intelligent ant. The character of Spiridon, depicted as a non-human alien, gifted with great knowledge, an insatiable scientific curiosity but no human feelings or emotions, the victim of mankind's petty jealousies and racial fears, is a striking departure from the Vernian influence that permeated the rest of Laurie's works. Selected bibliography As Paschal Grousset: 1869: Le Rêve d'un Irréconciliable, as Paschal Grousset As Philippe Daryl: 1890: Le Yacht — histoire de la navigation maritime de plaisance https://archive.org/ As André Laurie: 1879: Les Cinq Cent Millions de la Begum, written with Jules Verne, translated as The Begum's Fortune 1882: Mémoires d'un Collégien 1884: L'Étoile du Sud, written with Jules Verne, translated as The Vanished Diamond 1884: L'Héritier de Robinson (Robinson Crusoe's Heir) 1885: L'Épave du "Cynthia", written with Jules Verne, translated as The Waife of the Cynthia in 1886 and as The Salvage of the Cynthia in 1958 1886: Le Capitaine Trafalgar 1887: Les Exilés de la Terre – Selene-Company Limited, translated as The Conquest of the Moon: A Story of the Bayouda in 1889 (Conquest of the Moon, Black Cat Press, 2010. ) 1888: De New York à Brest en Sept Heures, translated as New York to Brest in Seven Hours in 1890 1890: Le Secret du Mage, translated as The Secret of the Magian or The Mystery of Ecbatana in 1892 1891: Axel Eberson, translated as Axel Eberson, the Graduate of Upsala in 1892 1894: Le Rubis du Grand Lama (The Ruby of the Great Lama) 1895: Un Roman dans la Planète Mars (A Novel On Planet Mars) 1895: Atlantis, translated as The Crystal City Under The Sea in 1896 (Crystal City Under the Sea, Black Cat Press, 2010. 1903: Le Géant de l'Azur (The Giant of