num_pages: 264
description: Richard Bessire made his mark on 1960s French science fiction through a number of novels that featured an original blend of horror and SF. Two of his best works of the period are The Seven Rings Of Rhea (1962) in which Earth is described as seven concentric spheres with Hell at its core and The Gardens Of The Apocalypse (1963) picturing a nightmarish post-cataclysmic Earth invaded by alien life forms where survival is all but impossible. This edition also includes a bibliography and introduction by French SF scholar Rmy Le Chevalier.
language: English
title: The Gardens of the Apocalypse
publisher: Black Coat Press