Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
The famed writer and visionary died on march, the 19th,at a hospital near his home in Sri Lanka.
Most famous for expanding his short story « The Sentinel » into a novel and screenplay that served as the basis for Stanley’s Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the British-born Clarke authored more than 100 books involving space, science, and science fiction, and he’s often credited with inventing the concept of satellite communications. He first proposed the idea in 1945 with a paper called « Extra-terrestrial Relays. »
Today, the International Astronomical Union refers to a geostationary satellite orbit as The Clarke Orbit.
Having fought post-polio syndrome since the 1960s – a condition that forced him into a wheelchair at times – Clarke checked into the hospital four days ago, and according to his personal secretary, he died after experiencing a cardio-respiratory attack.
The famous festival « Quai du polar », well-known by the community which bring together all the lovers of thrillers. This event assemble international autors, like some talented english writers: John Harvey, Ken Bruen, Mark Billingham, Graham Hurley, Anne Perry, Jonathan Trigell, Bill James and Mo Hayder.
The festival suggests a focus on the British crime novel, with readings, meetings, exhibitions, tv series… and participation of the public in mystery games, « bal noir », etc.
For more information, you just have to consult the official website of « Quai du polar »: you can find the link to the official website in the heading « Bolgroll ».
Filed under: Novel
A woman’s life can fall down in few seconds. Céline Giraud a Peruvian girl, aged 25 and , discovers the unthinkable. When she was just a baby, she had been rapted from her parents 16 days after her birth by thieves.
They were members of child traffic. Céline knew she was adopted by a french family, but she tought, as her adoptive parents, that her biologic mother had abandonned her because she couldn’t rear her own daughter.
Céline makes an investigation to find her biologic parents an the men who rapted her. In Peru, she meets a poor family, her own family. Then she warns up the police station and gives all the details of this child traffic and the name of the 24 children rapted.
In her book Céline Giraud tells us her incredible travel, from France to Peru, but also from her mother to her biologic mother living in a ghetto.
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The Little Prince father, probably killed by a nazi pilot
Horst Rippert, an 88-year old former pilot of Germany’s Luftwaffe, has said in a forthcoming book that he may have killed French writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1944
Saint-Exupery, who achieved worldwide fame with his fairy-tale-like book « The Little Prince, » died in mysterious circumstances when his plane came down near Marseilles while on a reconnaissance mission. His body has never been found.
Extracts of the book « Saint-Exupery: The Final Secret » were published in Le Figaro magazine over the weekend, and Le Figaro quoted Rippert as saying: « It’s me, I shot down Saint-Exupery. »
However, Rippert also said in the article that he could not be certain of the identity of the French pilot whose plane he shot down. He also hoped it was not the French author as he was a big fan of Saint-Exupery’s works.
« I didn’t see the pilot and even so, it would have been impossible for me to know that it was Saint-Exupery. I have hoped ever since that it wasn’t him, » he said.
Saint-Exupery was a pioneering pilot of his era. Following the Nazi German occupation of France in 1940, he moved to New York but then came back and joined the Free French air force. He was 44 years old when he died.
On the eve of the presidential elections of 2012, a new gang controls all cities of the suburbs and threatens the institutions of the Republic. To fight it, Interior minister Van Der Haegen asks the Parliament for the approval to make intercede the army.
So, a new urban war blow up, result of a conspiracy with the Government. And Maxime Manders just leave jail, and he is thinking about a new life. Though, the life want him to save his friends: so he has to penetrate Anarky’s gang…
Anarky is a vertiginous submersion in human’s darkness in a world where the devil is not really where you expect…
Filed under: Comic books
« My name is Etienne, and i’m an alcoholic ». Thoose words are the firts words of this graphic novel. In fact, this is an autobiography and it gives a real power to the story. In another life, Etienne Schréder, was a civil servant, recorder in a prison. In the soft spiral of alcohol (yes, it does exist !), with its obliged stations : pubs, friends, homeless persons…This is absurd, incoherent…this is a purgatory !
For such scenario, you have to be courageous : sharped angle shots in black and white make the hero a real « shivering shadow » dismembermented. The moral is somewhere between fatalism and hope because, a night in winter 1984, Etienne stoped drinking. But we don’t know the reason, maybe a piece dignity. But all thoose events brougth us a new talented author.
Filed under: Comic books
This comic concentrates qualities of 3 authors. This comic testifies a realism without moralism by drawings and sketches.
The scenario of Denis is about the main character, somebody who wan the lotto, and his relationships with his sweetheart. His obsessive fear is to lose the ticket, and this fear turns into a real nightmare.
Men look like more fragile than women. But faced to this question, the answer can be given by the psychosociologists. And the judgment is yours…
L’oeil était dans la tombe, Christian De Metter
French comic books could be very unhealthy. Christian De Metter shows us a surprising face of a dream world. Sex, murders, alcohol…all is used to take the reader in a black world where a serial killer commits murders after murders.
The hero, who is more like an antihero, leads an ordinary life swatted by the others. The plot is montrously strictness and unconscionable stressful. The investigator meets a young blind boy, who is more « lucid » than normal persons.
But the pictures are very well drawed. The colors, in the majority black and green, are very effective.
In conclusion, pictures and scenario meddle each other giving us 72 pages of pure thrill !
The 28th Paris Book Fair, which takes place from the 14th to the 19th, has been evacuated yesterday on sunday the 16th, at 5 pm.
The Exposition has been closed for about 2 hours, since the policemen were checking trough the « Parc des expositions », in Versailles.
Indeed, someone called the police at the end of the afternoon in order to inform that a bomb was present in the Paris Book Fair. Because of the recent controversing about this event, the police took the notice seriously.
It is true that Palestinian governments and intellectuals declared last week that they were opposed to the representation of Isreal at Paris Book Fair, for the 60th birthday of the promised land.
But the policemen didn’t find anything and the anonymous phone call was probably a fake.
Filed under: Novel
In her new novel Ni d’Eve, ni d’Adam Amélie Nothomb, who wan French Academy Price, turns back to Japan, with its wonderful landscape and her very first love story.
Amélie Nothomb’s fan will be pleased ! Her 16th novel, published inseptember 2007 tells us her very first love. The scene takes place in modern Japan where Amélie Nothomb was born. It is also an opportunity for her to analyse her writing obsession. She writes since she was 17. It is her confession, her verdict, but above all, her life ! Since that day, she publishes one novel the year. His first success, “” was translated to 37 languages. Then, she waited until last September to write a part of her autobiography, two loves, Japan memories and Rinri, a japan guy. 17 years waiting for such details !
“A love story, it takes time to digest !” says Amélie Nothomb. 17 years digesting it ! What a fat meat ! Or what a strong love story…
“it’s the very first time I felt respected” she says. You have to know how respect is a important quality in Japan.
Sometimes spectator, sometimes actress, she tells us what are the love rites in Japan, highlighting what is comic or artificial for occidental people. Come back to Japan was something like a therapy curing her personal problems and illness.
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