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Serge Lehman
Serge Lehman (born July 12, 1964) is the primary pseudonym of French science fiction writer Pascal Fréjean. Profile Fréjean has also written under the names Corteval, Don Hérial, and Karel Dekk. He won the Prix Rosny-Aîné with the novel trilogy ''F.A.U.S.T.'' and with such short fiction wor such as "Dans l'abîme" and "Origami". ''F.A.U.S.T'' also won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 1998. His stories have also appeared in ''Tales of the Shadowmen'' and he worked on the script of the film '' Immortel (Ad Vitam)'' by Enki Bilal. He gained critical attention outside the science fiction field in France with '' The Chimera Brigade'' in 2009-2010. This comic book, illustrated by Gess, has been regarded by French critics as the French reply to Alan Moore's ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''. This alternative history story is set just before World War II. It describes how an elite band of superhumans, born or created during the First World War, when dubious scientific experim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudonym
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's own. Many pseudonym holders use pseudonyms because they wish to remain anonymous, but anonymity is difficult to achieve and often fraught with legal issues. Scope Pseudonyms include stage names, user names, ring names, pen names, aliases, superhero or villain identities and code names, gamer identifications, and regnal names of emperors, popes, and other monarchs. In some cases, it may also include nicknames. Historically, they have sometimes taken the form of anagrams, Graecisms, and Latinisations. Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones and become the individual's full-time name. Pseudonyms are "part-time" names, used only in certain contexts – to provide a more clear-cut separation between o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative History
Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternative history stories propose ''What if?'' scenarios about crucial events in human history, and present outcomes very different from the historical record. Alternate history also is a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; as literature, alternate history uses the tropes of the genre to answer the ''What if?'' speculations of the story. Since the 1950s, as a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history stories feature the tropes of time travel between histories, and the psychic awareness of the existence of an alternative universe, by the inhabitants of a given universe; and time travel that divides history into various timestreams. In the Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1964 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 12 ** Zanzibar Revolution: The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Science Fiction Writers
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ParisLike
ParisLike is a bi-lingual e-journal devoted to the new artistic, literary, intellectual and scientific practices. Founded in 2011 by Alessandro Mercuri and Haijun Park, the review features video documentaries, performances, interviews, critical essays and illustrated texts subtitled and translated into English. Among others figures who can be found in the magazine: Pierre Guyotat, Luc Moullet, Bruno Latour, Philippe Sollers, Bertrand Hell, Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Peter Szendy, Pascal Perrineau, eRikm, Luc Ferrari, Michel Maurer, Anita Molinero, Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, Serge Lehman, Jean Levi, Camille Paglia, Cécile Mainardi, Erik Morse... Productions of the magazine are part of the digital archives of the :fr:FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, :fr:CEVIPOF, Documents d'artistes, INSERM. Some were screened at the Centre Pompidou, University of Tokyo and at New York University and one essay was published by the Éditions Gallimard. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Mercuri
Alessandro Mercuri is a French-Italian author and director, born in 1973. After studying philosophy in France, he graduated from CalArts. with a MFA in Live Action. In 2001 he made ''Alien American'', a documentary film about a woman who claimed to be coming from another planet. Selected at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and screened at the Gallery 825 of the Los Angeles Art Association, the film is “neither a fake documentary nor a real fiction that refuses the hierarchy of fact over fiction and, more usefully, shows that this phantasmagoria constitutes American ideology » according to the American critic Holly Willis.Holly Willito noise : Alien American" LA Weekly, 15/02/2002. His first essay, ''Kafka Cola, without pity or added sugar'', was published in France in 2008. Described by the critics as an “unidentified literary object”, as “a mega-modern fiction” or as a “treaty of fictional sociology”, the book was praised by Philippe Sollers on its relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (''LoEG'') is a comic book series (inspired by the 1960 British film ''The League of Gentlemen'') co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999. The series spans four volumes, an original graphic novel, and a spin-off trilogy of graphic novella. '' Volume I'' and '' Volume II'' (released as two six-issue limited series) and the graphic novel '' Black Dossier'' were published by the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics. After leaving the America's Best imprint, the series moved to Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics, which published '' Volume III: Century'' (released as three graphic novella), the '' Nemo Trilogy'' (a spin-off of three graphic novella centered on the character of Nemo), and '' Volume IV: The Tempest'' (originally released as a six-issue limited series). According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a "Justice League of Victorian England" but he quickly developed it as an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Science Fiction
French science fiction is a substantial genre of French literature. It remains an active and productive genre which has evolved in conjunction with anglophone science fiction and other French and international literature. History Proto science fiction before Jules Verne As far back as the 17th century, space exploration and aliens can be found in Cyrano de Bergerac's ''Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon'' (1657) and Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's ''Entretien sur la Pluralité des Mondes'' (1686). Voltaire's 1752 short stories '' Micromégas'' and ''Plato's Dream'' are particularly prophetic of the future of science fiction. Also worthy of note are Simon Tyssot de Patot's ''Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé'' (1710), which features a Lost World, ''La Vie, Les Aventures et Le Voyage de Groenland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mésange'' (1720), which features a Hollow Earth, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's ''L'An 2440'' (1771), which depicts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell''. He is widely recognised among his peers and critics as one of the best comic book writers in the English language. Moore has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Brilburn Logue, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as '' 2000 AD'' and ''Warrior''. He was subsequently picked up by DC Comics as "the first comics writer living in Britain to do prominent work in America", where he worked on major characters such as Batman ('' Batman: The Killing Joke'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
