Edward de Capoulet-Junac

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Edward de Capoulet-Junac (born 1930 ) is a French science fiction writer.

He is known as the author of the novel Pallas ou la tribulation (1967, German Pallas or the Visitation ), which was also widely praised by Stanisław Lem , in which the earth is invaded by an extraterrestrial race and humanity is defeated. The surviving humans are carried off to the home planet Pallas of the squid-like aliens and are kept there as a kind of pet. Pallas ou la tribulation is precisely because the usual reading expectations are disappointed, there is no viral disease that kills the aliens, and certainly no heroic uprising by humans, but rather the pet people are described as quarreling among themselves, bored and largely occupied with sex for Patrick Parrinder “perhaps the best novel in French science fiction”.

The author is said to have studied sociology and law in Paris. Further information is not known. It has been suggested that it is a pseudonym .

bibliography

  • L'ordinateur des pompes nuptiales (1961)
  • Pallas ou la tribulation (1967)
    • German: Pallas or the Visitation. Translated by Willy Thaler. Insel (Fantastic Reality: Science Fiction of the World), 1971. New edition: Suhrkamp (Fantastic Library # 149), 1985, ISBN 3-518-37638-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction: A Critical Guide. Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-87266-5 , p. 221.
personal data
SURNAME Capoulet-Junac, Edward de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French science fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1930