Gérard Klein

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Gérard Klein is a French science fiction writer born in 1937 with sociological training.

He is the editor of the prestigious science fiction imprint Ailleurs et Demain published by Robert Laffont and of the Livre de Poche science-fiction imprint.

In his works, one novella is particularly striking, Les virus ne parlent pas ("The viruses do not speak"), where he imagines that the viruses have created all living beings in the same fashion that human beings have created computers, and for the same reason: to improve their efficiency. This work prefigures naturalist Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which deals with a similar subject: human beings can be considered as the "vehicles" used by their genes to make more copies of those genes. In Gérard Klein's novella, the creation escapes the intentions of its creator when humanity attempts to eliminate viruses. (See also golem, Karel Čapek, and Isaac Asimov.)

Gérard Klein used Gilles d'Argyre pseudonym to sign his novels published by Fleuve Noir in their Anticipation imprint.

Several of his novels were translated by DAW Books in the United states.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Agent Galactique [Galactic Agent] (under the pseudonym of Mark Starr) (1958)
  • Embûches dans l'Espace [Ambushes In Space] (co-written with Richard Chomet & Patrice Rondard under the pseudonym of François Pagery) (1958)
  • Le Gambit des Étoiles (1958; transl. as Starmasters' Gambit, 1973)
  • Les Perles du Temps [The Pearls Of Time] (1958)
  • Chirurgiens d'une Planète [The Planet Surgeons] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1960); revised as Le Rêve des Forêts [A Dream Of Forests] (1987)
  • Les Voiliers du Soleil [The Solar Sailors] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1961)
  • Le Temps n'a pas d'Odeur [Time Has No Scent] (1963; transl. as The Day Before Tomorrow, 1972)
  • Le Long Voyage [The Long Journey] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1964)
  • Les Tueurs de Temps [The Time Killers] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1965; transl. as The Mote In Time's Eye, 1975)
  • Un Chant de Pierre [A Song Of Stone] (1966)
  • Le Sceptre du Hasard [The Scepter Of Chance] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1968)
  • Les Seigneurs de la Guerre (1971; transl. as The Overlords Of War, 1973)
  • La Loi du Talion [The Law Of Retaliation] (1973)
  • Histoires Comme Si... [Stories As If...] (1975)
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