Serge Lehman

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Serge Lehman (actually Pascal Fréjean; born July 12, 1964 in Viry-Châtillon , Essonne department ) is a French writer, comic book author and critic, well-known and widely recognized as an author of science fiction . In addition to Serge Lehman, he used the pseudonyms Don Hérial , Karel Dekk , Robert Wolff and Corteval .

Life

Born on the southern edge of Paris, Lehman got to know the works of Jean Ray , Claude Seignolle and HP Lovecraft through his father at an early age . At the age of 10 he discovered science fiction for himself and developed a passion here that should always take precedence over his other interests, namely comics , films and rock music . In 1982, while still in high school, he and a friend from school started a biweekly program devoted to the first popular media on a communist FM station , which was broadcast for two years and through which he met some of the most famous comic book authors of those years, including Frank Margerin , Yves Frémion and Chantal Montellier . Together with this friend he published a first short story in 1984 in the Fanzine Continuum . This success encouraged him to take a break after the Hypokhâgne (the first year of preparation for studying literature at an ENS ) and work in the Latin Quarter at the science fiction bookstore Temp futurs, founded by Stan and Sophie Barets . He then went on to study, however, and a lecture on the history of science at the Sorbonne provided him with the material for his first novel La guerre de sept minutes , which appeared in two volumes in 1990 under the pseudonym Don Hérial by Fleuve Noir . In 1995 he won both the Prix ​​Rosny aîné and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire , two of the most important French genre prizes, with the story Dans l'abîme . Lehman is now the author of a good dozen novels and almost 80 short stories. He has also edited several anthologies, including Chasseurs de chimères, l'âge d'or de la science-fiction française , which won the 2007 Prix ​​Bob Morane .

The novel FAUST , the first volume in a trilogy, won the Prix Rosny aîné, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the Prix ​​Ozone in 1997 . It takes place in the year 2095, when real power is no longer in the hands of elected politicians, but rather large corporations and a board of directors of these economic powers are preparing to establish totalitarian global rule. A secret alliance of scientists, intellectuals, diplomats and spies, including the father of the protagonist Chan Coray, a young man who is drawn into power struggles and machinations, is opposed to this unrestrained striving for power of a global capitalist apparatus.

Lehman is also a well-known comic book scenarist . Together with Jean-Marie Michaud, he created the SF comic series La Saison de la Coulœuvre from 2007 . For the SF comic series La Brigade Chimérique (together with Fabrice Colin , drawings by Gess ) he was awarded the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2011 . He worked with Philippe Druillet on the 2020 sequel Babel of Druillet's Lone Sloane saga. He also wrote the screenplay for Immortal - New York 2095: The Return of the Gods , the film adaptation of Enki Bilal's SF comic trilogy about Alexander Nikopol .

Awards

  • 1995 Prix ​​Rosny aîné and Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the story Dans l'abîme
  • 1997 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the story Le Collier de Thasus
  • 1997 Prix ​​Ozone for Nulle part à Liverion (SF story in French)
  • 1997 Prix Rosny aîné, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Prix Ozone for the novel FAUST
  • 1998 Prix Ozone for L'Inversion de Polyphème (SF story in French)
  • 1999 Prix ​​Bob Morane for the novel Aucune étoile aussi lointaine
  • 1999 Prix Ozone for Aucune étoile aussi lointaine (SF novel in French)
  • 2007 Prix Bob Morane, special prize for the anthology Chasseurs de chimères, l'âge d'or de la science-fiction française
  • 2007 Prix Rosny aîné for the story Origami
  • 2011 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the comic book La Brigade Chimérique

bibliography

La guerre de sept minutes (as Don Hérial)
  • 1 La Loi majeure (1990)
  • 2 Hydres (1990)
FIST
  • FAUST (1996)
  • Les Défenseurs (1996)
  • Tonnerre Lointain (1997)
Novels
  • Espion de l'étrange (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • Le Haut-Lieu (1995)
  • La Sidération (1996)
  • Wonderland (1997)
  • L'Ange des profondeurs (1997)
  • Aucune étoile aussi lointaine (1998)
  • Chambres meublées (2011)
  • Espion de l'Étrange (2011)
Collections
  • Le Livre des Ombres (2005)
  • Le Haut-lieu et autres espaces inhabitables (2008)
stories
  • L'Homme qui voulait sauver l'univers (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • La Prospective est un art difficile (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • La Vérité devant-derrière (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • Le Monde des non I (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • On a frolé l'incident (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • Tous à Oléron (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • À la poursuite des glands (1991, as Karel Dekk)
  • L'Homme qui voulait sauver l'univers (1991)
  • La Chasse aux ombres molles (1991)
  • Sur l'échine de la Grande Ourse (1992, as Karel Dekk)
  • La Sidération (1992)
  • Sur l'échine de la Grande Ourse (1992)
  • Collector (1993, as Karel Dekk)
  • Polygons (1993, as Karel Dekk)
  • Collector (1993)
  • Sur le seuil lysergique (1993)
  • Un songe heliotrope (1993)
  • Cinq tuniques blanches (1994)
  • Dans l'abîme (1994)
  • En attendant le gel (1994)
  • L'Hypothèse de Russo (1995)
  • Le Collier de Thasus (1995)
  • Le Signe du Picte (1995)
  • Le vide, le silence et l'obscur (1995)
  • Apothéose du Punisseur (1996)
  • Le Chasseur dans l'escalier (1996)
  • Le Jeu du dispatcheur (1996)
  • Le livre des ombres (1996)
  • Le Système Dogoujiev (1996)
  • Les Mularis (1996)
  • Zero part à Liverion (1996)
  • Panique sur Darwin Alley (1996)
  • L'An 11111010000 (1997)
  • L'Inversion de Polyphème (1997)
  • La Perle (1997)
  • Contre-mesure (1997, as Robert Wolff)
  • La route du grand dehors (1998)
  • Lent 2000 (1998)
  • Origine de la Première Loi de Purnath (1998)
  • Les Singes (1998, also as Robert Wolff)
  • Le Temps des Olympiens (2000)
  • Magma (2001)
  • Epilogues (2005)
  • Katoptron (2005)
  • La Maison de l'avatar (2005)
  • Le Gouffre aux Chimères (2005)
  • Prologos (Prologue) (2005)
  • Un clou chasse l'autre (2005)
  • L'Homme Aberrant (2006)
  • Origami (2006)
  • Superscience (2006)
  • Les Melons de Trafalmadore (2007)
  • Un ancien dissident à nouveau autorisé à publier (2007)
  • La Régulation de Richard Mars (2008)
comics
  • Thomas Lestrange (2007)
  • La Saison de la Coulœuvre (2007-2010, 3 vols.)
  • La Brigade Chimérique (2009-2010, 6 vols.)
  • Masqué (2012–2013, 4 vols., With Stéphane Créty)
    • 1 anomalies (2012)
    • 2 Le jour du fuseur (2012)
    • 3 Chimères et Gargouilles (2013)
    • 4 Le préfet special (2013)
  • L'homme truqué (2013)
  • Metropolis (2014–2017, 4 vols.)
  • La Grande évasion (2014)
  • L 'Œil de la Nuit (2015–2016, 3 vols.)
  • Sept (2016)
  • L 'Esprit du 11 janvier (2016)
  • L'homme gribouillé (2018)
script
Anthologies (as editor)
  • Escales sur l'horizon (1998)
  • Les Dinosaures (1999)
  • Chasseurs de chimères, l'âge d'or de la science-fiction française (2006)
  • Retour sur l'horizon (2009)
  • La Guerre des Règnes (2012)
  • La Quinzaine littéraire n ° 1066 (2012)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Serge Lehman , Editions Le Bélial website , accessed on September 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ Serge Lehman in the Bedetheque, accessed on September 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lehman, Serge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fréjean, Pascal (real name); Hérial, Don (pseudonym); Dekk, Karel (pseudonym); Wolff, Robert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, comic book writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Viry-Châtillon , Essonne department