| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
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| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
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I was digging around in my old books the other day and came across
a 1971 copy of G�rad Klein's "The Overlords of War". I could'nt
remember having read it, so I started in.
Having finished it I am VERY puzzled. Not by the plot, et cetera,
which was a very good read. But rather by the fact that this book
seems to be full of ideas, phrases, and stylistic approaches that
I have definitley seen before in other books by other authors.
I had been attributing thes "things" to the other stories which
I now realize were precedded by Overlords.
Is anyone else familiar with this book? Does anyone know if G�rad
Klein is a psuedonym for someone else? (The cover says that he is
French, and that the book was translated by John Brunner) Was this
some landmark piece of Science Fiction that many later writers
copied/emulated and I am just not aware of it? Or am I totally
off base here?
-- Barry
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| 439.1 | Late is better than never | SEGUR::CLAIREMBAULT | Wed Aug 05 1992 10:19 | 23 | |
A late answer...
G�rard Klein is a French SF editor. He has created one of the most famous
French SF collections. He edited for the first time in France DUNE (he was a
personal friend of Herbert), works of J.Brunner...
He is very professional. I think that klein is his real name.
His first formation is economist (ENA : Ecole Nationale d'Administration).
Presently, he is leading two collections. Sometimes, he writes short stories.
He is one of the great SF authors in France with Pierre Boulle
(La planete des singes).
I have read overlords of war (seigneurs de la guerre). It is his best
book and perhaps the only which was traducted in English.
It looks like P.K Dick novels (Klein is a Dick's fan) but it is possible
to understand his story ! I don't think that his interesting ideas are c
copied by other (American) writers.
Moreover, it is pleasant to speak to him.
A French robot.
Pierre.
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