# L'Ève future

By Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, comte de.

"L'Ève future" by comte de Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam is a symbolist science fiction novel published in 1880. When Lord Ewald confides to his friend Thomas Edison that he's contemplating suicide over his beautiful but empty-souled fiancée, Edison proposes an extraordinary solution: he will construct a perfect android replica named Hadaly. As Edison reveals the mechanical details of his creation and duplicates Alicia's physical form, questions emerge about artifice, perfection, and what makes a woman truly alive—leading to an unexpected supernatural twist. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Subjects: Science fiction; Inventors -- Fiction; Androids -- Fiction

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