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Maurice G. Dantec

Born

in Grenoble, France

June 13, 1959

Died

June 25, 2016

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

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(English version below) Maurice Georges Dantec naît à Grenoble le 13 juin 1959, au sein d'une famille communiste, d'un père journaliste scientifique et d'une mère couturière et employée de service de la Ville d'Ivry-sur-Seine. Il passe la majeure partie de sa prime enfance dans cette ville, en pleine banlieue « rouge ». À l'âge de 5 ans, de violentes crises d'asthme vont éveiller en lui « d’atroces angoisses de mort imminente », dont le souvenir va hanter son adolescence. Ces problèmes de santé et la séparation de ses parents vont le conduire à vivre avec sa mère et sa soeur durant plus de 5 ans dans les Alpes, près de Grenoble, sa ville natale.

Après une scolarité brillante, il entre en 1971 au lycée Romain-Rolland, où il rencontre Jean-Be (English version below) Maurice Georges Dantec naît à Grenoble le 13 juin 1959, au sein d'une famille communiste, d'un père journaliste scientifique et d'une mère couturière et employée de service de la Ville d'Ivry-sur-Seine. Il passe la majeure partie de sa prime enfance dans cette ville, en pleine banlieue « rouge ». À l'âge de 5 ans, de violentes crises d'asthme vont éveiller en lui « d’atroces angoisses de mort imminente », dont le souvenir va hanter son adolescence. Ces problèmes de santé et la séparation de ses parents vont le conduire à vivre avec sa mère et sa soeur durant plus de 5 ans dans les Alpes, près de Grenoble, sa ville natale.

Après une scolarité brillante, il entre en 1971 au lycée Romain-Rolland, où il rencontre Jean-Bernard Pouy, futur créateur du Poulpe, qui amplifie son attirance déjà bien ancrée envers les littératures "marginales" américaines de l'époque (roman noir, écrits psychédéliques, science-fiction). Très tôt, il devient également un fervent lecteur de Nietzsche et Gilles Deleuze. À la fin des années 1970, une fois le bac en poche, il débute des études de lettres modernes qu'il abandonne rapidement pour fonder les groupes de rock « État d'Urgence », puis "Artefact" . Durant les années 1980, il continue ses aventures musicales tout en travaillant en tant que concepteur-rédacteur dans la publicité.

Après avoir créé, en 1991, sans succès, une société de communication multimédia, il décide de se « mettre à écrire sérieusement », tout en travaillant dans une agence de télémarketing. Sur recommandation de Jean-Bernard Pouy, il soumet en 1992 à Patrick Raynal, directeur de la collection Série Noire, un « volumineux et impubliable manuscrit de cinq cents feuillets de deux mille signes » : l’éditeur , qui voit en lui "les signes d'un phénomène littéraire", l’encourage alors vivement à lui livrer un autre ouvrage.

Maurice Georges Dantec was born in Grenoble, France on June 13th, 1959, within a communist family. His father was a scientific journalist and his mother a dressmaker, employees in the service of the City of Ivry-sur-Seine. He spent the majority of his childhood in the "red" suburbs. At the age of 5 years, a series of violent asthma attacks awakened his mind with the dreadful anxiety of imminent death, a memory that haunted him into adolescence. These health problems greatly affected him, along with the separation of his parents, and he lived with his mother and sister for more than 5 years in Alps, near Grenoble, his home town.

After primary schooling, Maurice entered the secondary school Romain-Rolland in 1971, where he met Jean-Bernard Pouy, future creator of the Octopus, who amplifies his growing attraction towards American "marginal" literature (black novel, mind-expanding writings, science fiction). Very early, he also became a fervent reader of Nietzsche and Giles Deleuze. At the end of 1970’s, once the receptacle in pocket, it starts studies of modern letters which he leaves fast to found the groups of rock " urgent State ", then "Artefact". During 1980s, it continues its musical adventures while working as concepteur-editor in advertising.

Having created unsuccessfully, a society of multimedia communication, while working in an agency of telemarketing , in 1991, he decided to write seriously. On recommendation of Jean-Bernard Pouy, he submitted some of his writing in 1992 to Patrick Raynal, manager of the collection Thriller. It was a huge, unpublishable handwritten manuscript of five hundred pages. Instead of rejection, the editor saw in Maurice "the signs of a literary phenomenon" strongly encouraging him to create other works.
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	Babylon Babies 3.35 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1999 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Racines du mal 3.83 avg rating — 501 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Cosmos Incorporated: A Novel 2.85 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Le théâtre des opérations. Journal métaphysique et polémique 1999 3.39 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“worse than amnesia, the loss of all memory. It is the chaotic falsification of memory. Dementia.”
― Maurice G. Dantec, Grand Junction

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NOVEMBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which 2 novels will move on to the run-off poll for our November SF Book of the Month!

The Diamond Age Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

14 votes 29.2%

Blindsight by Peter Watts

10 votes 20.8%

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

9 votes 18.8%

The Children of Men by P.D. James

4 votes 8.3%

The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton

3 votes 6.3%

Brasyl by Ian McDonald

3 votes 6.3%

Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson

2 votes 4.2%

Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe

1 vote 2.1%

The Dark Beyond the Stars A Novel by Frank M. Robinson

1 vote 2.1%

Farthing by Jo Walton

1 vote 2.1%

Babylon Babies by Maurice G. Dantec

0 votes 0.0%

The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald

0 votes 0.0%

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