Né à Liverpool en 1957, Stephen Baxter est diplômé en mathématiques de l’université de Cambridge. En 1991, il échoue aux examens de présélection pour devenir astronaute sur la station spatiale Mir. Les lecteurs de SF n’y perdront rien au change, bien au contraire, car la même année paraît Gravité, son premier roman, qui inaugure le plus célèbre de ses cycles, Les Xeelees. C’est là une gigantesque fresque spatiale, composée à ce jour de quatre romans et d’un recueil de nouvelles — l’ensemble étant en cours de parution aux éditions du Bélial’ —, sans omettre la trilogie des Enfants de la Destinée, rédigée une décennie plus tard et parue en France aux Presses de la Cité. L’ensemble de l’œuvre fait montre d’une amplitude vertigineuse, inégalée en science-fiction, n’embrassant rien de moins que le devenir de notre Univers au cours des éons. Considéré comme l’héritier littéraire de son compatriote Arthur C. Clarke, avec lequel il a collaboré à plusieurs occasions, Stephen Baxter a publié à ce jour une trentaine de romans et plus de cent cinquante nouvelles. Un corpus impressionnant qui lui a valu une kyrielle de prix, dont le prestigieux Philip K. Dick Award à deux reprises et le Campbell Award, ce dernier pour Les Vaisseaux du temps, la suite de La Machine à explorer le temps de H.G. Wells.
Hannu Rajaniemi was born in Finland. At the age of eight he approached the European Space Agency with a fusion-powered spaceship design, which was received with a polite "thank you" note. Hannu studied mathematics and theoretical physics at University of Oulu and Cambridge and holds a PhD in string theory from the University of Edinburgh. He co-founded a mathematics consultancy whose clients included UK Ministry of Defence and the European Space Agency.
Hannu is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief (winner of 2012 Tähtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction novel published in Finland and translated into more than 20 languages). His most recent book is Summerland (June 2018), an alternate history spy thriller in a world where the afterlife is real. His other works include Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction, a short story collection.
Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and CEO of HelixNano, a venture- and Y Combinator backed biotech startup.
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977)
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Edmond Hamilton was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was something of a child prodigy, graduating from high school and undertaking his college education at Westminster College at the young age of 14; he dropped out aged 17. A popular science fiction writer in the mid-twentieth century, Hamilton's career began with the publication of his short story 'The Monster God of Mamurth' in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales. After the war, he wrote for DC Comics, producing stories for Batman, Superman and The Legion of Superheroes. Ultimately, though, he was associated with an extravagant, romantic, high-adventure style of SF, perhaps best represented by his 1947 novel The Star Kings. He was married to fellow SF writer Leigh Brackett from the end of 1946 until his death three decades later.
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Título : Bifrost n° 95
EAN : 9782843448805
Editorial : Le Bélial
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