Laurent Genefort

Laurent Genefort is a French writer of Science-fiction born in 1968 in the Paris region.

Biographical note

Attracted very early by the science fiction, it devours as of the twelve years age the classic authors of the Space operated, in the forefront of which appear in good place Jean-Pierre Andrevon, Frank Herbert and Stefan Wul. It publishes a fanzine which draws the attention of Serge Brussolo, which suggests to him launching out in the writing. At nineteen years, it thus produces a first novel, Bagne of darkness , which is published by the black Fleuve. It begins studies of right but is directed quickly towards the letters and passes a control on Maurice Renard, a DEA on the neologisms of alive in Noô and finally a thesis of Doctorat on the deliver-universes of the science fiction.

Very prolific, Laurent Genefort published more than one about thirty novels and quickly pointed out himself for his talent of creator of worlds and his fertile imagination on the matter. Like he says it itself, he is very attracted by the study of the concepts of otherness and difference which presents an extraterrestrial civilization:

The otherness is in the middle of my novels, in all its forms: physics (space artefacts and strange planets), biological (exotic forms of life) and ethnic (primitivists, thehuman ones…). I believe moreover that it is, as speech, one of the major sources of the science fiction. With my series of Omale which is announced for the years to come, I finally will be able to develop this topic frontally.

The critic Eric Vial also notices that the rejection of the policy and the social speech are very present in its work. What it readily confirms with these words:

I am the one time old product when the young people were disgusted very early of the policy, of right-hand side like left. In the Eighties, we were an acute aware that the young people represented only one weight for the company, and not a hope: we were on the point of going to enlarge the figures of unemployment. Thereafter, my some attempts to integrate organizations consolidated me in the dislike of the political parties. I remain despite everything a sympathizer of the free-thought as well as laic and republican ideas.

He devotes today all his talent to the construction of the coherent universe of Omale like to a series of Fantasy for youth. He was prize winner of the Grand Prix of Imaginary the in 1995 for his novel Arago .

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