Kevin Bokeili (8 February 1963 – 7 April 2014) was a French science fiction writer who was active from 2004 until his death in 2014.

Biography

Bokeili was born in February 1963 and grew up in

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, Switzerland, where he studied philosophy. In the early 1990s, he moved to

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where he studied screenplay writing. Enjoying writing about

time travel Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a w ...

and imagining

alternate 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, altern ...

and parallel worlds, he tried unsuccessfully to begin a writing career in the film industry. Established in France in 2000, Bokeili finally turned his English screenplays to French science fiction literatureArticles : Science Fiction Magazine (2005)
and four of his novels have been published since 2004 by Quatrième Zone Publishing.

Bibliography

;Published Literary Work in French

''Gorck's Land'' trilogy

*''The Temple of Salomon, Le Temple de Salomon'', 2004, . *''Xilf Invasion, Invasion Xilf'', 2006, .

''Timeport'' series

*''Chronostation 2044 , Chronogare 2044'', 2005, 2-915-79501-0 *''Speed & Rock'n Roll'', 2008, 2-915-79505-9

References

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