The writer Pierre Bordage, author of best-selling science fiction books, died on Friday December 26 at the age of 70, the publishers Au Diable Vauvert and L’Atalante, which published most of his fifty novels, announced on Monday.
Son “sudden death” East “occurred following a cardiac arrest on December 26 in his 71e year “the publishers specified in a press release. “He is a great French writer who is disappearing, an inventor of stories and worlds who pushed the boundaries of inspiration and genres”they added.
“I try to carve out a small place for myself, a modest plowman of words, in the eternal and fruitful furrow traced by the great history-makers”Pierre Bordage once said, quoted by his publishing house.
“The Silent Warriors”
The writer, born in 1955 in La Réorthe (Vendée), contributed to popularizing French SF from the 1990s, when the sector was largely dominated by Anglo-Saxon authors. He notably acquired a certain success with his trilogy The Silent Warriors (L’Atalante), whose first volume sold 50,000 copies, a significant figure for a French-speaking science fiction work.
Pierre Bordage also experimented with other styles, including historical or scientific fantasy and detective fiction. He was inspired by a video game with Atlantispublished in 1998 then translated in the United States.
The Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, paid tribute on the social network “one of our greatest science fiction authors”. “His work has fascinated hundreds of thousands of readers, often from adolescence, and will fuel our curiosity for science and the future for a long time to come”she added.
