Le Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu
Le Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu ("Doctor Lerne, Demi-God") is a fantasy novel by the French writer Maurice Renard, published in 1908. Inspired by The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, Renard adds a significant twist: the narrator himself finds himself the object of a transplant experiment by a mad surgeon, Doctor Lerne. In a preface to the novel, Renard dedicated it to Wells. The book has been translated into numerous languages. The novel is now in the public domain. French publication 

 Mercure de France, Paris, 1908, 
 Editions G. Crès (ill. Joseph Hémard), Paris, 1908. Illustrated French edition, Paris, 1919. Editions Tallandier, Paris, 1958. Belfond Editions, Paris, coll. "Domaine fantastique" No. 3, 1970. Marabout, Verviers, coll. "Marabout Fantastique" No. 567, 1976. Éditions Robert Laffont, in the collection Maurice Renard, Romans et contes fantastiques, Paris, 1990. . Editions José Corti, Paris, 2010. . English publication 
An English translation of the book was published in New York by The Macaulay Company in 1923, as New Bodies for Old. An adaptation by Brian Stableford was published in 2010 under the title Doctor Lerne. Television 

An adaptation by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, under the title L'étrange château du docteur Lerne, was broadcast on French television on Antenne 2, on December 28, 1983. References

External links 
 Entire text of original 1908 publication, in French, on Wikisource
 Text of 1923 English edition, published as New Bodies for Old, on Project Gutenberg

1908 science fiction novels
Experimental medical treatments in fiction
French science fiction novels
Fictional mad scientists