Roland C. Wagner

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Roland C. Wagner (2011)

Roland C. Wagner (born September 6, 1960 in Bab El-Oued , Algeria , † August 5, 2012 in Laruscade , Gironde department ) was a French science fiction author.

Life

Wagner was the son of an Algerian mother and a German Air Force soldier who joined the Foreign Legion in 1945 . With the end of the Algerian War in 1962, the family moved to France, where they settled in Clamart in the south-west of Paris . Wagner soon began to read science fiction, including La Guerre des Gruulls by Jean-Pierre Andrevon , but also American science fiction, including Heinlein's The Door to Summer and Stranger in a Strange World and other classics of the genre. He became an SF fan and attended the second Eurocon in Grenoble when he was barely 14 , where he was kindly encouraged by established authors such as Michel Jeury and Christine Renard .

From the end of the 1970s Wagner began under a number of pseudonyms - including Brain Damage ("brain damage", since 1983 he belonged to the rock group of the same name), such humorous names as Lucien-serge Diethylamide 25 (with the initials LSD 25 ) and Michaël Moorcock In homage to the British New Wave author Michael Moorcock - to write stories and reports for various fanzines . His first Prozine publication was the short story Au bord du gouffre , co- authored with Pierre Marlson , and published in Future magazine in 1981 . A number of other short stories followed. One of them, Faire-part , was awarded the prestigious Prix ​​Rosny aîné in 1983 . However, Wagner persistently looked for a publisher for his roughly 20 previously unpublished novels. After numerous rejections, Wagner was finally able to convince the Fleuve noir publishing house after he had already written a spy novel for them together with Alain Paris as a commissioned work, and in 1987 Le serpent d'angoisse appeared in the Fleuve noir Anticipation series . The novel won the Prix Rosny aîné in 1988 and was also the first of the series of novels known as Histoire du Futur Proche , together with the Futurs Mystères de Paris and a few other texts part of the overarching cycle Histoire d'un futur . In total, Wagner won the Prix Rosny aîné seven times.

After a change in staff at the Fleuve noir publishing house in 1992, a few lean years followed, during which Wagner translated a number of Perry-Rhodan novels and revised some inadequate translations. He also wrote under a pseudonym with Jimmy Guieu on the novel series Blade et Baker .

From the beginning of the 2000s, Wagner lived with the science fiction author Sylvie Denis in Cognac . In the following years a number of other novels from the great cycle Histoire d'un futur were published , as well as Le temps du voyage (2005) a return to space opera in the style of Jack Vance and the award-winning alternative story of the Algerian war, Rêves de gloire ( 2011).

Wagner died in 2012 at the age of 51 in a car accident on the RN 10 near Laruscade when his car was forced off the road by an overtaking vehicle. Sylvie Denis and their then 18-year-old daughter were slightly injured in the accident.

Wagner himself worked as a translator from German and English, but conversely, until now there have been hardly any translators into other languages ​​for Wagner's works. The first two volumes of the Futurs Mystères de Paris and three short stories were translated into Italian and the fictional Lovecraft biography HPL (1890–1991) was translated into English. Translations into German are not available.

Awards

  • 1983: Prix ​​Rosny aîné for the story Faire-part
  • 1988: Prix Rosny aîné for the novel Le Serpent d'angoisse
  • 1989: Prix Rosny aîné for the novel Poupée aux yeux morts
  • 1997: Prix Rosny aîné for the story HPL (1890-1991)
  • 1998: Prix ​​Ozone for the novel L'Odyssée de l'espèce
  • 1998: Prix Rosny aîné for the novel L'Odyssée de l'espèce
  • 1998: Prix ​​Tour Eiffel for the story Fragment du livre de la mer
  • 1999: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the novel series Les Futurs mystères de Paris
  • 2000: Prix Ozone for the novel Toons
  • 2004: Prix ​​Bob Morane for the novel La Saison de la sorcière
  • 2004: Prix Rosny aîné for the novel La Saison de la sorcière
  • 2011: Prix du Lundi for the novel Rêves de Gloire
  • 2011: Prix ​​ActuSF de l'uchronie for Rêves de Gloire
  • 2011: Prix ​​Utopiales for the novel Rêves de Gloire
  • 2012: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the novel Rêves de Gloire
  • 2012: Prix Rosny aîné for the novel Rêves de Gloire
  • 2013: Prix Bob Morane for the story Le Train de la réalité et les morts du général

The main belt asteroid (428102) Rolandwagner , discovered in 2006, was named after him.

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Histoire du Futur Proche (series of novels)
  • Le serpent d'angoisse (1987)
  • Le paysage déchiré (1989)
  • Un navire ancré dans le ciel (1989)
  • La Mort marchait dans les rues (1989)
  • Quelqu'un hurle mon nom (1993)
Le Faisceau Chromatique (series of novels)
  • Un ange s'est pendu (1988)
  • Le rêveur des terres agglutinées (1990)
  • L'autoroute de l'aube (1990)
  • Chroniques du désespoir (1991)
Poupée aux yeux morts (series of novels)
  • 1 La mémoire des pierres (1988)
  • 2 Prisons intérieures (1988)
  • 3 Les futurs mystères de Paris (1988)
  • Poupée aux yeux morts (1998, also as L'oeil du fouinain , 2002, collection)
La Sinsé gravite au 21 (series of novels, as Red Deff)
  • 1 Viper (1991)
  • 2 ganja (1991)
Blade et Baker (series of novels, with Jimmy Guieu as Richard Wolfram)
  • Le serpent dieu de Joklun-N'Ghar (1992)
  • Les albinos de Sulifüss (1993)
  • Captifs de la Main Rouge (1994)
  • Echec au destin (1994)
  • Les magiciens des mondes oubliés (1994)
  • L'ombre du Dragon Rouge (1994)
  • Le maître de la Main Rouge (1995)
  • Flammes sur Batoog (1995)
  • Au cœur de Kenndor (1995)
  • La fin de Gondwana (1996)
  • Embuscade sur Eileena (1996)
  • L'offensive des Frotegs (1996)
  • L'alliance des invincibles (1997)
  • La planète sans nom (1997)
  • Panique sur Wondlak (1997)
  • Les prisonniers de Bangor (1998)
  • Conjuration sur Joklun-N'Ghar (1998)
  • Sur l'aile du dragon (1999)
  • Les Templiers des étoiles (2000)
  • Les ravisseurs de Ktan (2000)
  • La fugitive de Z'Lanna (2000)
Les Futurs Mystères de Paris (series of novels)
  • 1 La balle du néant (1996)
  • 2 Les ravisseurs quantiques (1996)
  • 3 L'odyssée de l'espèce (1997)
  • 4 L'aube incertaine (1997)
  • 5 Tekrock (1999)
  • 6 Tons (2000)
  • 7 Babaluma (2002)
  • 8 Kali yuga (2003)
  • 9 Mines (2006)
  • Les futurs mystères de Paris 2: Les ravisseurs quantiques (2009, collection)
  • Les futurs mystères de Paris: L'intégrale (2015, 2 volumes, collection)
Par la noirceur des étoiles brisées (short story series)
  • 1 L'épouvantail (1999)
  • 2 Le dernier astronef (1999)
  • 3 fille du métal (1999)
  • 4 Grace feline (1999)
  • 5 La route de Fripp (2000)
  • 6 A la cour du roi cramoisi (2000)
  • 7 Les étoiles brisées (2000)
  • 8 epilogue (2000)
Novels
  • Les psychopompes de Klash (1990, also as Red Deff)
  • Cette Crédille Qui Nous Ronge (1991)
  • Le Nombril du Monde ( Agence Arkham # 2, 1997)
  • La sinsé gravite au 21 (1998)
  • Le pacte des esclavagistes (1999, with Rémy Gallart )
  • Le chant du cosmos (1999)
  • Le temps du voyage (2005)
  • LGM (2006)
  • La Saison de la Sorcière (2006)
  • Rêves de gloire (2011)
  • Le train de la réalité et les morts du général (2012)
  • Aventuriers des étoiles (2014)
collection
  • HPL: suivi de: Celui qui bave et qui glougloute (2017)
Short stories
  • Au bord du gouffre (1981, with Pierre Marlson )
  • A la saignée du coude (1981)
  • Faire-part (1982)
  • Le temps: un oeil ouvert dans la nuit (1983)
  • La dernière change de la morve d'or (1984, as Richard Wolfram)
  • Lèvres peintes (1984)
  • Par delà les murs qui saignent (1984, with Michel Pagel )
  • L'oeil de la science (1985)
  • Ce qui n'est pas nommé (1985)
  • Blafarde ta peau, rouge ton regard (1986)
  • HPL (1890-1991) (1996)
  • Honoré a disparu (fantaisie) (1998)
  • Les trois lois de la sexualité robotique (1998)
  • Musique de l'énergie (1998)
  • Celui qui bave et qui glougloute (1999)
  • Pour une poignée de cailloux (1999)
  • Marche et crève (2000)
  • La barbe du prophète (2000)
  • ... Et personne n'est venu (2002)
  • Le réveil du parasite (2002)
  • S'il n'était vivant (2002)
  • La chanson de Jimmy (2003)
  • Pax Americana (2005)
  • Le train de la réalité (fragment), (2011)
  • Honoré a disparu (2015)
  • L'esprit de la commune (2015)
  • Pot smokers from outer space (2015)
  • Recrystallization (2015)

Web links

Commons : Roland C. Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The initial "C.", which Wagner acquired in order to distinguish himself from namesake, is often interpreted as standing for the name "Charles". But this is not certain. As an author's name, apart from “Roland C. Wagner”, only “Roland Wagner” and “RC Wagner” are documented.
  2. ↑ Roland C. Wagner: … au milieu de la guerre. In: Parallèles No. 9, January 1999, p. 14 f.
  3. ↑ a b Roland C. Wagner ( Memento from April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), article in Le Cafard Cosmique .
  4. ↑ Some of the pseudonyms used by Wagner: Brain Damage, Lucien-serge Diethylamide 25, Gimme Dieu, Richarleville Mezieres F., Vincent Frenganor, Paul Geeron, Bertrand Guerrand, Daniel Lys, Henriette du Mans, Mikhail Mongolovitch, Michaël Moorcock, Henriette de la Sarthe, Ronald R. Rengaw, Richard Tannhauser, Mohamed Trabelsi, Raoul Vernes, Richard Wolfram. See the biographical data on nooSFere.org.
  5. ^ Jean-Pierre Planque: Quand la cigale squatte la fourmi: Une approche de l'œuvre de Roland C. Wagner. In: SFère n ° 13, March 1984.
  6. ^ Roland C. Wagner, Alain Paris: La Course du springbok à travers le veld. Fleuve noir, 1987, ISBN 2-265-03530-0 .
  7. ^ Roland C. Wagner in Perrypedia , accessed on April 9, 2019.
  8. ↑ La science-fiction au-delà des clichés , article by Philippe Ménard in Sud Ouest of March 23, 2012, accessed on April 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ L'auteur de science-fiction Roland C. Wagner meurt dans un accident en Gironde , article in Sud Ouest of August 6, 2012, accessed on April 8, 2019.
  10. ↑ (428102) Rolandwagner = 2006 QO137 , entry by the Minor Planet Center of the IAU , accessed on April 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Roland C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Roland Charles (full name); Wagner, Roland (maiden name); Wagner, RC (alternative spelling); Deff, Red (pseudonym); Wolfram, Richard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French science fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bab El-Oued , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2012
Place of death Laruscade , Gironde department