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Roland Charles Wagner , born the September 6th 1960, in Algeria, is a writer French of Science-fiction to often humorous tendency. Since its professional beginnings in 1981, it published a hundred news and about fifty novels, which were worth to him, inter alia, the Prix Eiffel Tower, several Prix Rosny elder and the Grand Prix of Imaginary the.

Biography

the Future Mysteries of Paris put in scene a “transparent” private detective answering in the name of Crowned Temple of the Radiant Paddle; it is not strictly speaking invisible, but people do not pay attention to him. Begun in 1996 with the Ball of nothing , this cycle which in is today with its ninth title ( Mine of nothing , 2006) inserts in a unit vaster heading Histoire of a Future , to which belong in particular the short series of the Histoire of the Near future , This Crédille which corrodes us and the Song of cosmos (1999), space opera describing a mental play strongly inspired of the go. He is the inventor of the concept of the Psychosphère which impregnates the Histoire of a Future and had the idea of the term Aya , to indicate an artificial intelligence in his novel the ball of nothing .

After having described with ferocity in the Season of the witch (2003) ultra-sedentary France of the future close relation invaded by the United States which was worth to him the prices Rosny-Elder Bob-Morane and 2004, it returns to the space opera with the Time of the voyage (2005), a novel of adventures vancian and picaresque which mixes adventures and reflection on colonialism. As for Pax Americana (2005), it treats in a realistic and humorous way consequences on a worldwide scale of the oil déplétion.

Faithful to its search of a world righter and more peaceful, he currently works with a Uchronie on the Guerre of Algeria placed under the psychedelic influence of Albert Camus and the movement of the years 1960. According to him “it is time to burst the abscess and to give the things to their true place”.

He is the author of a uchronic biography of H.P. Lovecraft (under the title HPL (1890-1991) ) and of many pastiches of recognized authors of science fiction, in particular the three laws of robot-like sexuality , pastiche of course of famous the three laws of robotics of Isaac Asimov.

He also translated into French authors like Norman Spinrad, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Vance, Stephen Baxter or Catherine Asaro - the two last in collaboration with Sylvie Denis.

It also sometimes happens to him to write words for groups of Rock, of which Brain Damage of which he is also the singer. Partisan of the Copyleft and the free access to the culture, it has is at the origin with Psychronauts of the piece “Clicks on the mulot”.

Roland C. Wagner wrote under multiples Pseudonyme S of which Richard Wolfram, Henriette of the Sarthe, Paul Geeron, Red Deff.

Works

(not-exhaustive list)

Novels

  • the Snake of anguish (1987)
  • Headstock with the dead eyes (1988) (another title: the Eye of the fouinain )
  • the landscape torn (1989)
  • the last days of May (1989)
  • Psychopompes de Klash (1990)
  • Sinsé revolves with the 21 (1991)
  • This crédille which corrodes us (1991)
  • the Ball of nothing (1996)
  • the quantum Kidnappers (1996)
  • the Odyssey of the species (1998)
  • the dubious Paddle (1997)
  • Tekrock (1999)
  • It Song of Cosmos (1999) - the Lace of the swan, 02/1999
  • Tøøns (2000)
  • Music of energy (2000 - news)
  • Babaluma (2002)
  • Kali Yuga (2003)
  • the Season of the witch (2003)
  • the Time of the voyage (2005)
  • Pax Americana (2005)
  • L.G.M. (2006)
  • Mine of nothing (2006)

See too

External bonds

  • official Pages of RCW: Criticisms, articles, extracts, bibliographies, biography (S) and mailing list.
  • Fun House: Blog of RCW.
  • the page devoted to ''' Roland C. WAGNER ''' on the site of the cosmic Cockroach

Remote loadings

; Novels
  • Last Days of May
  • the Torn Snake: Collection joining together the Snake Of anguish and Landscape torn .

; Novella

  • Music of energy

; News

  • the Spirit of the Commune
  • Blafarde your skin, red your glance
  • the Song of Jimmy: Homage to Jimmy Guieu.
  • Three laws of robot-like sexuality: Pastiche of Isaac Asimov.
  • Бледнатвоякожа, кровавтвойвзгляд Translation in Russian of Blafarde your skin, red your glance.

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