The Thieves of Silence
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Sixteen amazing stories, with only four previously published in English, by the award-winning author of "The Night Orchid - Conan Doyle in Toulouse".
A lonely astronaut shepherds a flock of artificial intelligences... A human is captured by a wish-seeking fairy... On a hostile world, a small band of scientists must survive the attacks of a lethal vegetation in exchange for the single bud that will give Mankind immortality... A comic glimpse of dinosaurian bureaucracy... Creepy bio-mechanic horror, magical realism, neo-romantic space operas, Orwellian dystopias... All compete to dazzle the reader's eye in a truly outrageous bouquet of stories by an expert dreamer.
"Jean-Claude Dunyach and his stories represent the workings of a multiplex engine of creation, its multiple cylinders all entrained in perfect unison, and whirring at high speculative RPMs!" Paul Di Filippo
Find out why The Night Orchid was called "one of the most successful single-author collections I've read for some time" (Alien OnLine) and "a definite must read for science fiction fans" (Blether) and Dunyach "one of the most talented imaginations living today" (David Brin).
"A must-read, not only for people interested in French SFF, but on account of sheer imaginative brilliance and top-class writing... After this banquet, from now on I shall immediately read any new story by Dunyach that I see; and so should you." Ian Watson.
Jean-Claude Dunyach
Ex chanteur-guitariste d'un groupe de rock aux intentions affirmées (les Worldmasters), conteur itinérant, parolier de variété (voir son recueil "Chansons"), tenancier d'un sex-shop toulousain pendant une semaine - le délai minimum, d'après lui, pour que cela figure dans une notice biographique -, Jean-Claude Dunyach, né le 17 juillet 1957 à Toulouse, possède déjà, on le voit, une solide expérience de la vie. Cependant, ces activités diverses ne l'ont pas conduit à la marginalité, puisqu'il affiche également un doctorat en mathématiques appliquées à l'utilisation des super-ordinateurs, et qu'il est ingénieur à Airbus depuis 1982. Auteur d'une centaine de nouvelles de science-fiction, de fantastique ou de fantasy dont neuf ont été rassemblées dans le recueil Autoportrait (1986), sept dans le roman/recueil Voleurs de Silence (1992), tandis que les autres trouvaient refuge chez l'Atalante (sept recueils parus). Il a aussi écrit plusieurs romans parus au Fleuve Noir, dont Étoiles mortes -- réédité chez J'ai lu -- qui s'est vu doté d'une suite écrite en collaboration avec Ayerdhal, Étoiles Mourantes (J'ai lu, Millénaire -- Grand Prix de la Tour Eiffel 1999). Quand il n'est pas en train de sillonner l'Europe pour son travail, ou enfermé dans un studio de musique pour réécrire pour la onzième fois les paroles de la chanson en cours d'enregistrement (activité qui lui a inspiré le roman de SF & rock'n Roll post-apocalyptique "Roll Over, Amundsen - qui comporte aussi des pingouins), il aime se glisser dans une combinaison de plongée et affronter le silence des tombants, là où les idées naissent et où les poissons vous chatouillent.
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