Laurent Genefort
Laurent Genefort (born February 18, 1968 in Montreuil , Seine-Saint-Denis department ) is a French writer of science fiction and fantasy .
He is best known for his cycle about the planet Omale and the 2015 novel Lum'en , which won three of the most prestigious French SF prizes with the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire , the Prix Julia-Verlanger and the Prix Rosny aîné . Genefort is considered a master of modern space opera and creator of compelling fictional universes . In 1996, these were also the subject of his dissertation Architecture du livre-univers dans la science-fiction , which was based on the example of five novels - in addition to Frank Herbert's Dune and Stefan Wul, who was particularly valued by Genefortwith Noô - a theory of fictional universes and worlds developed in the SF.
Awards
- 1995: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the novel Arago
- 2011: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the Rempart story
- 2012: Prix du Lundi for the novel Points chauds
- 2013: Prix Rosny aîné for the novel Points chauds
- 2015: Prix Julia-Verlanger for the novel Lum'en
- 2016: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the novel Lum'en and for the story Ethfrag
- 2016: Prix Rosny aîné for the novel Lum'en and for the story Ethfrag
- 2018: Prix Bob Morane , special prize together with Pierre Bordage and Laurent Whale for Crimes, Aliens et Châtiments (includes Genefort's Jennifer a disparu )
bibliography
Series
The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.
- Les Chants de Felya
- 1 Le labyrinthe de chair (1995)
- 2 De chair et de fer (1995)
- 3 Lyane (1996)
- Les chants de Felya (2013, collective edition from 1–3)
- L'opéra de l'espace
- 1 La compagnie des fous (1996)
- 2 Les voies du ciel (1996)
- Les opéras de l'espace (1999, collective edition of 1 and 2)
- Wethrin
Chroniques de Wethrin
- 1 Le château cannibale (1998)
- 2 Le sablier de sang (1999)
Les ères de Wethrin
- 1 Le nom maudit (2005)
- 2 La guerre de l'aube (2006)
- Omale (novels and short stories)
- Un roseau contre le vent (2000, short story)
- Omale (2001)
- Les conquérants d'Omale (2002)
- Arbitrage (2002, short story)
- Aparanta (2006, short story)
- Patchwork (2007, short story)
- L'affaire du rochile (2008)
- La muraille sainte d'Omale (2012)
- La septième merveille d'Omale (2012, short story)
- Les Omaliens (2012, short story)
- Omale: l'aire humaine (2012, collective edition, 2 volumes)
- Les vaisseaux d'Omale: l'aire hodgqine (2014)
- Ethfrag (2015)
- Une Aventure d'Alaet (series of novels)
- 1 La Citadelle des dragons (2000)
- 2 Le Démon-miroir (2000)
- 3 Le Labyrinthe sans retour (2001)
- 4 La Frontière Magique (2001)
- 5 Le Piège aux sorciers (2002)
- 6 La Caravane des ombres (2003)
- 7 Le Sablier maléfique (2003)
- 8 L'Odyssée des sirènes (2004)
- Hordes
- 1 L'ascension du serpent (2007)
- 2 Le vol de l'aigle (2008)
- 3 Les crocs du tigre (2010)
- Hordes (2012, collective edition)
- Spire (novel trilogy)
- 1 Ce qui relie (2017)
- 2 Ce qui divise (2017)
- 3 Ce qui révèle (2018)
Novels
- Le bagne des ténèbres (1988)
- Elaï (1992)
- Le monde blanc (1992)
- Les peaux-épaisses (1992)
- Haute Enclave (1993)
- Rézo (1993)
- Arago (1993)
- Les chasseurs de sève (1994)
- La troisième lune (1994)
- L'homme qui n'existait plus (1995)
- Le continent déchiqueté (1997)
- Le sang des immortels (1997)
- Typhon (1997)
- Les croisés du vide (1998)
- Dans la gueule du dragon (1998)
- Les engloutis (1999)
- Une porte sur l'éther (2000)
- La mécanique du talion (2003)
- Mémoria (2008)
- Aliens mode d'emploi - Manuel de survie en situation de contact extraterrestre (2012)
- Points chauds (2012)
- Lum'en (2015)
- Jennifer a disparu (2016)
- Étoiles sans issue (2017)
- Colonies (2019)
Short stories
- Proche-horizon (1998)
- Huldor (1998)
- La fin de l'hiver (1998)
- Le véritable voyage de Barbicane (1999) also appeared as:
- Longue vie (1999)
- Novinia (1999)
- La bonne cause (2000)
- Accident prévisible (2005)
- Le lot nº 97 (2009)
- Rempart (2010)
- Les dieux bruyants (2012)
- Croisées (2012)
- Chaperon (2014)
- Carnaval: L'aire tripartite (2017)
- Conatus (2018)
Web links
Commons : Laurent Genefort - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Laurent genes Fort in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Literature by and about Laurent Genefort in the catalog of the German National Library
- Laurent Genefort on nooSFere.org (French)
- Works by and about Laurent Genefort at Open Library
- Omale , website for the Omale universe (French)
- Utopiales 2017: l'interview de Laurent Genefort , video interview with Laurent Genefort (French, 16:19)
- Laurent Genefort on Goodreads.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laurent Genefort, biography ( Memento from January 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Laurent genes Fort: Architecture du livre-univers dans la science fiction, à travers cinq oeuvres: noo de S. Wul, Dune de F. Herbert, La Compagnie des glaces de G.-J. Arnaud, Helliconia de B. Aldiss, Hypérion de D. Simmons. Dissertation University of Nice , 1997, online (PDF).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Genefort, Laurent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer of science fiction and fantasy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th February 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreuil , Seine-Saint-Denis department |