Alain Dorémieux

Alain Dorémieux (born August 15, 1933 in Paris , † July 26, 1998 there ) was a French editor , translator and author of science fiction literature.

Life

He attended a Catholic school and passed the Abitur, but dropped out of the Sorbonne after two semesters. In 1953 the publisher Editions Opta decided to bring out a French-language version of the successful US SF magazine Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . Dorémieux worked on the first issue of the new Fiction magazine as editor and translator. His first SF text, Le Chemin sur la route , was published there in the sixth edition . He was first editor-in-chief and in 1958 editor-in-chief of the magazine. 1961 to 1967 he was also editor of the Alfred Hitchcock magazine . He discovered some later well-known authors of the French SF, such as Jean-Pierre Andrevon , Philippe Curval and Christine Renard . As the long-time editor of France's leading science fiction magazine, he had a significant influence on the development of the genre in France.

Alain Dorémieux has translated works by AE van Vogt , Ray Bradbury , Theodore Sturgeon and Philip K. Dick into French, among others . His literary work consists of about fifty short stories, novellas and short stories as well as a single novel published shortly before his death ( Black Velvet ).

He used a variety of pseudonyms :

• Atlante Gilbert
• Luke Vigan (when working with Gerard Klein and Andre Ruellan )
• Monique Dorian (for texts written together with his wife Monique)
• the anagrams Meauroix Daniel and Alex Dieumorain (in his translations)
• Serge-André Bertrand (for reviews and essays)

Since 2000, a prize named after him has been awarded for the best debut publication by a new SF author.

German-language publications

• Walks on the edge of the precipice. Science fiction stories , translated by Helga Abret , Josaine Geisler , Georges Hausemer and Bernhard Thieme ( Promenades au bord du gouffre ), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982 (SF Volume 3858)
• Symbiosis phase one. Science fiction stories , with a foreword by Georges Hausemer and an afterword by Michael Nagula , translated by Georges Hausemer ( Couloirs sans issue ), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1986 (SF Volume 4330)

Works

author

• La Vana , 1959
• Mondes interdits , 1967
• Promenades au bord du gouffre , 1978
• Le livre d'or de la science-fiction , 1980
• Couloirs sans issue , 1981
• Black Velvet , 1991
• Tableaux du délire , 1999

editor

• Espaces inhabitables ... , 1973

Web links

• Literature by and about Alain Dorémieux in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Alain Dorémieux in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Entry at noosfere.org (French)
• Works by and about Alain Dorémieux at Open Library