Gerard Klein (science fiction)

See also: Klein, Gerard Klein

Gerard Klein (born on May 27th 1937 with Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a writer and editor French of Science-fiction. As much by its qualities writer that by his activities of editor, Gerard Klein exerted and exerts always a considerable influence on the French science fiction.

Biography

After studies of social Psychology and in economy, it worked with SEDES, a company of economic studies. Gerard Klein published several novels with the black Fleuve under the pseudonym of Gilles d' Argyre. Argyre finds in particular in Saga d' Argyre, (1960-1964), a trilogy whose second volume is the famous the Sailing ships of the sun .

It directs the collection Ailleurs and Tomorrow of the Éditions Robert Laffont, which is regarded as the most prestigious collection of science fiction in France. He is also director of the collection science fiction of the Livre of Pocket. He directed with Jacques Goimard and Demètre Ioakimidis the Large Anthology of the science fiction of 1974 to 1985.

In its work, a news is detached: the viruses do not speak , where he imagines that the viruses would have created the living beings in the same way that the men created the computers and for the same reason: to increase their effectiveness. This idea precedes a book of the naturalist Richard Dawkins who will make then great noise: the egoistic Gene , covering same subject: the living beings can be regarded as large organization-robots that use genes to duplicate itself more and more quickly. In the news of Gerard Klein, the creature escapes for its creator since the man seeks to eliminate the viruses. See consequently the articles Golem, Karel Čapek and Isaac Asimov

Gerard Klein also gives himself early product (with the limit ex-æquo with Cordwainer Smith) of the use of the solar propulsion in science fiction.

Works

; Signed Gilles d' Argyre

; Signées Gerard Klein

  • the Pearls of time , news, Denoël, 1958
  • Gambit of the stars , novel, Hachette, 1958
  • Time does not have odor , novel 1963
  • a song of stone , collection of news, Eric Losfeld, 1966
  • the Lords of the war , novel, Robert Laffont, 1970
  • the Law of retaliation , collection of news, Robert Laffont, 1973
  • Histoires like if… , collection of news, UGE, 10/18, 1975
  • the gold Book of Gerard Klein , anthology of news, 1979
  • Random access memory, read-only memory , news, the died astronaut, 1996
  • Random access memory, read-only memory , anthology of news, Robert Laffont, 2007

; Tests

  • Malayan in the American science fiction , the wedged Paddle, 1977
  • Screens and moired , in Science fiction and psychoanalysis , Dunod, 1986

; Anthologies

  • On the other face of the world and other scientific novels of Sciences and Voyages (1973) (with VAN HERP Jacques) Laffont, Elsewhere and Tomorrow/Traditional, 1973.
  • Stories of machines large anthology of the SF (1974) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3768,1974.
  • Stories of mutants large anthology of the SF (1974) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3766,1974 (rééd. 1985)
  • Stories of robots large anthology of the SF (1974) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3764,1974 (rééd. 1985)
  • imposing future of the French SF - Volume 1: The Fifties (1975) (with BATTESTINI Monique) Seghers, Constellations, 1975.
  • galactic Stories large anthology of the SF (1975) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3774,1975 (rééd. 1985)
  • In another country of the French SF - Volume 2: 1960-1964 (1976) Seghers, Constellations, 1976.
  • ecological Stories large anthology of the SF (1976) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3778,1976 (rééd. 1987)
  • What comes from the depths of the French SF - Volume 3: 1965-1970 (1977) (with GOIMARD Jacques) Seghers, Constellations, 1977.
  • the large temple of the SF: The prophet of sands (1978) (texts of HERBERT Frank) Pocket, the Large Temple of the SF n° 5018,1991.
  • the large temple of the SF: stars the depths (1978) (texts of the GUIN Ursula K.) Pocket, the Large Temple of the SF n° 5012,1991.
  • the gold book: Frank HERBERT (1978) (texts of HERBERT Frank) Pocket, the Book of Gold n° 5018,1978.
  • the gold book: Ursula K. the GUIN (1978) (texts of the GUIN Ursula K.) Pocket, the Book of Gold n° 5012,1978.
  • the gold book: Michel JEURY (1982) (texts of JEURY Michel) Pocket, the Gold Book n° 5133,1982.
  • Stories of invaders large anthology of the SF (1983) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3779,1983 (rééd. 1986)
  • Stories of the fourth dimension large anthology of the SF (1983) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3783,1983 (rééd. 1986)
  • Stories of voyages in space large anthology of the SF (1983) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3780,1983.
  • divine Stories large anthology of the SF (1983) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3782,1983.
  • Stories of mirages large anthology of the SF (1984) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3816,1984.
  • strange Stories of worlds large anthology of the SF (1984) Book of Pocket, the Large Anthology of the SF n° 3812,1984.
  • Stories of the year 2000 large anthology of the SF (1985) Book of Pocket, the Large one Anthology of the SF n° 3817,1985 (rééd. 1999)
  • French Anthology 1: Frank worlds (1988) (with HERZFELD Ellen and MARTEL Dominique) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7096,1988.
  • French Anthology 2: the hallucinated hexagon (1988) (with HERZFELD Ellen and MARTEL Dominique) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7101,1988.
  • French Anthology 3: The burst border (1989) (with HERZFELD Ellen and MARTEL Dominique) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7113,1989.
  • French Anthology 4: Mosaics of time (1990) (with HERZFELD Ellen and MARTEL Dominique) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7130,1990.
  • Masters of the SF: Stories extraterrestrial (1997) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7196,1997.
  • Masters of the SF: Planet stories (1997) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7197,1997.
  • Masters of the SF: Stories of robots (1997) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7195,1997.
  • French Anthology 5: Divergent horizons (1999) (with HERZFELD Ellen and MARTEL Dominique) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7212,1999.
  • French Anthology 6: Frontier runners of millenia (2005) (with MARTEL Dominique and HERZFELD Ellen) Book of Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7265,2005.
  • Masters of the SF: Stories of voyages in time (?)Deliver Pocket SF, 2nd series n° 7198,1997.

External bonds

  • Selection of articles and forewords of Gerard Klein on the site of the Quarantedeux
  • Bibliographie supplements
  • a short biography

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