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message 1: by David (last edited Oct 13, 2014 07:36PM) (new)

David Merrill | 240 comments The past few months I became interested in Science Fiction from countries other than the United States. I'd read a fair amount of Soviet SF over the years and, of course, UK and Canadian, SF, but I'm curious about other work in translation. Discussions here lead me to do some searching and I found Black Coat Press, publisher of French authors translated into English. Before I buy a bunch of Ebooks I decided to see if some of their authors were ever published in paper editions.

I found Grard Klein was published by DAW in the 70's and 80's. They published translations of four of his novels:
The Mote in Time's Eye
The Overlords Of War
The Day Before Tomorrow
Starmaster's Gambit


message 2: by Ed (last edited Feb 01, 2017 01:57PM) (new)

Ed Erwin | 2381 comments Mod
I know Gérard Klein better as an editor of anthologies than as an author. His many collections, like Les Passeurs de millénaires and La Frontière éclatée have introduced me to a number of French authors. (Sadly my favorite French authors are not translated to English. Sadder still, French people read SF works translated from English more than native French works.)

I did try to read "The Overlords of War", in the French version, but it didn't hook me.

Most of Black Coat Press works are older works from the "pulp" era. One of their few contemporary authors is Jean-Claude Dunyach. You might enjoy some of his stories. (In English: The Night Orchid: Conan Doyle in Toulouse or The Thieves of Silence.) One special thing about him is that there is a great diversity of styles and themes in his stories; they are not all alike at all.


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