The Queen of the Bees (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)
By Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
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Emile Erckmann
Émile Erckmann, né le 20 mai 1822 à Phalsbourg et mort le 14 mars 1899 à Lunéville en France, est un écrivain français.
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The Queen of the Bees (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures) - Emile Erckmann
The Queen of the Bees
By Emile Erckmann
& Alexandre Chatrian
A Cryptofiction Classic
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Introduction
The genre of cryptofiction has grown up in the shadow of its older brothers, science fiction and fantasy. While the latter two continue to move towards the mainstream of literary tastes – as evidenced by reaction to modern series such as Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle and George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire – many readers have probably never even heard of cryptofiction. Odd, when one considers that some of the most famous authors in the Western tradition have dabbled in cryptofiction, and that even today works of cryptofiction frequently feature on bestseller lists.
Cryptofiction takes its name from another, non-literary practice: cryptozoology. Cryptozoology is generally regarded as a pseudoscience by mainstream scientists, relying as it does upon anecdotal, often unverifiable evidence. However, it still boasts many enthusiasts, and continues to exert considerable artistic allure. Focused on the search for animals whose existence has not been established – who are literally kryptos, Greek for hidden
– cryptozoology traces its roots to the work of the 19th-century Dutch zoologist Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858-1943). Oudemans’ 1892 work, The Great Sea Serpent, was a collected study of global sea serpent sightings, which hypothesised that all these serpents might stem from a previously unknown species of giant seal.
Around the same time that Oudemans’ work came to prominence, cryptozoology