Stefan Wul was the ''

nom de plume A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

'' of the French

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

writer Pierre Pairault (27 March 1922 – 26 November 2003), born in Paris.

Biography

He was a

dental surgeon A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry (the diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity and other aspects of the craniofacial com ...

, but science fiction was his real passion. Most of his books reflect that, showing a deep knowledge of scientific data. Pairault retired from dental surgery in 1989, but remained active in the French science fiction scene. He published eleven novels between 1956 and 1959 and a twelfth in 1977. One of them, ''Le Temple du Passé'' (1957), was translated into English, as ''The Temple of the Past'' in 1973. His fame outside of French-speaking countries is due to the animated adaptations of two of his novels by the animator and film director

René Laloux René Laloux (; July 1929 – 14 March 2004) was a French animator, screenwriter and film director. Biography He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychi ...

. ''Oms en série'', which Laloux filmed in 1973, was translated into English in 2010 and published under the title ''

Fantastic Planet ''Fantastic Planet'' (french: La Planète sauvage; cs, Divoká planeta, lit. "The Wild Planet") is a 1973 experimental adult animated science fiction film, directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, the latter of whom a ...

''.

Bibliography

* '' Retour à zéro'' (''Back to Zero'', 1956) * '' Niourk'' (1957) * '' Rayons pour Sidar'' (''Rays for Sidar'', 1957) * '' La Peur géante'' (''The Giant Fear'', 1957) * '' Oms en série'' (''Oms by the Dozen'', 1957; filmed as '' La Planète sauvage'' in 1973) * '' Le Temple du passé'' (''The Temple of the Past'', 1957) * '' L'Orphelin de Perdide'' (''The Orphan of Perdide'', 1958; filmed as ''

Les Maîtres du temps ''Les Maîtres du temps'' (lit. ''The Masters of Time'', a.k.a. ''Time Masters''; ''Herrscher der Zeit'' in German; ''Az idő urai'' in Hungarian) is a 1982 Franco-West German- Swiss-British- Hungarian animated science fiction feature film direc ...

'' in 1982) * '' La Mort vivante'' (''The Living Death'', 1958) * '' Piège sur Zarkass'' (''Trap on Zarkass'', 1958) * '' Terminus 1'' (1959) * '' Odyssée sous contrôle'' (''Odyssey Under Control'', 1959) * '' Noô'' (1977)

External links

Wul's obituary at Locus online
1922 births 2003 deaths French science fiction writers French male novelists 20th-century French novelists French dentists {{France-novelist-20thC-stub