Stefan Wul

Stefan Wul (actually Pierre Pairault ; born March 27, 1922 in Paris ; died November 26, 2003 ) was a French science fiction writer.

life and work

Pairault initially studied philosophy and literature , but after graduating he decided to study dentistry. In addition to his profession as a dentist, which he practiced from 1945 until his retirement in 1989, he wrote eleven novels in the second half of the 1950s, with which he made a name for himself in French-speaking countries and still enjoys cult status today. Two of his works served as models for well-known science fiction films. Oms en série was created as La Planète sauvage ( The fantastic planet in the German version) and L'orphelin de Perdide (German as ruler of time ) by the French director René Laloux with the help of well-known artists such as Jean 'Moebius' Giraud and Roland Topor as Cartoons implemented. La Planète sauvage was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1975 . His last work was published in 1977, the Roman Noô , which was awarded the Prix ​​Julia-Verlanger in 1986 . In addition, a whole series of his works were adapted as comics from 2012.

bibliography

Novels

• Return to "0" (1956)
  • German: Inferno moon. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 242), 1960.
• Niourk (1957, also: Gallimard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-07-041953-3 )
• Rayons pour Sidar (1957, also: Gallimard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-07-034547-2 )
• La Peur Géante (1957, also: Denoël, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-207-24735-X )
• Oms en Série (1957, also: Gallimard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-041560-0 )
• Le Temple du passé (1957, also: Denoël, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-207-50577-4 )
• L'Orphelin de Perdide (1958, also: Denoël, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-207-50536-7 )
• La Mort vivante (1958, also: Presses Pocket, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-266-00628-2 )
• Piège sur Zarkass (1958, also: Denoël, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-207-50576-6 )
• Terminus 1 (1959, also: Denoël, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-207-50570-7 )
• Odyssée sous contrôle (1959, also: Denoël, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-207-50561-8 )
• Noô (1977, also: Gallimard, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-07-042278-X )

Short stories

• Le bruit (1957)
• Échec au plan 3 (1958)
• Expertise (1958)
• Il suffit d'un rien ... (1958)
• Jeux de vestales (1960)
  • German: Games of the Vestals. In: Jörg Weigand (Hrsg.): The voice of the wolf: Science fiction stories from France. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3482, 1976, ISBN 3-453-30361-X .
• Gwendoline (1961)
• L'archange (1982)
• Le loup botté (1996)

Works

• Works (1970)
• Œuvres complètes (1996/1997, 2 volumes)
• L'intégrale (2013–2014, 4 volumes)

Adaptations

Film adaptations

• René Laloux (director): The fantastic planet . 1973 (based on the novel Oms en Série ).
• René Laloux (Director): Ruler of Time . 1982 (based on the novel L'orphelin de Perdide ).

comics

• Niourk (German as Nuork at All Verlag )
  • 1 L'Enfant noir (2012)
  • 2 La ville (2013)
  • 3 Alpha (2015)
• Oms en série
  • 1 Terr, sauvage (2012)
  • 2 L'Exom (2013)
  • 3 La Manche-Terr (2017)
• La peur géante
  • 1 La révolte des océans (2013)
  • 2 L'ennemi des profondeurs (2015)
  • 3 La guerre des abysses (2016)
• Piège sur Zarkass
  • 1 Une chenille pour deux (2013)
  • 2 New Pondichery mon amour (2013)
  • 3 Gaïa, go home! (2014)
• Le temple du passé
  • 1 entrailles (2014)
  • 2 Envol (2015)
• Rayons pour sidar
  • 1 Lorrain (2014)
  • 2 Lionel (2015)
• Retour à zéro (2015)
• Odyssée sous contrôle (2016)
• Term 1
  • 1 L'Homme à la valise (2016)
  • 2 Le Fruit défendu (2016)
• La mort vivante (2018) (German as Die lebende Tote bei Splitter )
• L'Orphelin de Perdide
  • 1 Claudi (2018)
  • 2 Silbad (2019)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 462 f.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 1076.
• Maxim Jakubowski, John Clute : Wul, Stefan. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 31, 2018.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 1135.

Web links

• Stefan Wul in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Stefan Wul in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Stefan Wul in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stefan Wul on nooSFere (French)
• Stefan Wul in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Stefan Wul at Open Library
• Stefan Wul on rocbo.net (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ also under the title The wild planet