* Jean-Louis Couturier [Wed, 07/02/2001 at 14:08 -0500]
> Barjavel is indeed a great author, and "La nuit des temps" is his
> masterpiece.
> Among his other novels, I have enjoyed "Le voyageur
> imprudent", a novel about time travel,
I haven't yet read this one, but it's in the anthology I've bought.
> and "Ravage", a novel about
> the fall of civilization.
I can't resist to add "Le Grand Secret" a skillful rendering of an
immortality conspiracy (English title : "The Immortals")
> In my nook of the woods, we also have some good SF writers, most
> of them women. Elisabeth Vonarburg, in particular, has had novels
> translated in English under the titles _The Silent City_ ("Le
> silence dans la cit�") and _Maerland Chronicles_ ("Chronique du pays
> des m�res").
It's the second time I hear about that writer, I'll definitely give her a
try.
>
> This last one probably loses a lot in the translation. It is about
> a society where women outnumber men by a certain order of magnitude
> and thus has reversed grammatical rules concerning gender. Since
> English mostly uses the neutral gender and that the plural of the
> third person is "they" (in opposition to "ils" or "elles" in french),
> the impact cannot be the same.
In the same area have you ever read "Les hommes prot�g�s from Robert
Merle" (English title: The Virility Factor).
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