In the fourth and final volume of the series, Harry Madge's brigade of psychic spies sent to infiltrate Europe on behalf of the secret cabal of American billionaires, led by William Boltyn, is sowing chaos and despair, but the invention of a new "psychic accumulator" by Arsene Golbert enables good will to triumph, banishing hatred, ambition, cupidity and egotism, and opening the doors to a new utopian society...
The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the "Transatlantic Peril," positing a fundamental difference of culture and attitude between the United States and Europe. Despite some of its outlandishness, hindsight has lent the world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality.
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La Conspiration des milliardaires (Paris: Guyot, 1899 and 1900) with Gustave Guitton [published in three volumes]
Translated, annotated and introduced by Brian Stableford [title paqe]
English adaptation and introduction by Brian Stableford [Copyright page]
--Stableford in general is a translator for BCP formally. Real translators are anonymous [i.e. cheap].
Cover illustration by Gilles Francescano