This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. Julliard, 1964 translated by Xan Fielding Vanguard Press, 1965 315 pages Boulle’s third book to be translated into English demonstrates the writer’s gift for creating heightened tension in the plot and then easing it with a heavy dose of irony. And if you like
This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. selected and translated by Xan Fielding Secker & Warburg, 1966 254 pages It’s a bit confusing when you try to sort out exactly which of Boulle’s stories from which English edition of Time Out of Mind first appeared in which French collection.* Here’s a
This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. Julliard, 1963 translated by Xan Fielding Vanguard Press, 1963 246 pages If you’ve watched the 1968 Planet of the Apes film, that’s great. Now forget all about it. Pierre Boulle’s novel Planet of the Apes is, like many of the author’s works, a social
This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. Julliard, 1977 translated by Margaret Giovanelli Vanguard Press, 1978 204 pages Pierre Boulle published The Great Leviathan, the story of a massive, nuclear-powered oil tanker, eight years after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, in which over three million gallons of oil were released
NOVELS Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated from the Dutch by Moshe Gilula (Tor Nightfire, February 8) Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages
This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. Julliard, 1971 translated by Patricia Wolf Vanguard Press, 1973 213 pages If Desperate Games was a person, it would be that kid at school who always kept to himself and seemed perfectly happy with that, who did his own thing without even seeming to
Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) was a French author who wrote several science fiction novels, including Planet of the Apes. Trained as an electrical engineer, Boulle spent eight years in Malaysia as a planter and soldier. His experience as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore during World War II inspired his famous novel
Kalin Stacey is a writer, educator, and activist based in Toronto, Canada. He is currently a student of translation studies at Glendon College, a voracious reader of SFF, and an aspiring translator of speculative fiction. translated from the Korean by Sophie Bowman & Sung Ryu Harper Voyager April 6, 2021 336 pages grab a copy
Marlaine Delargy grew up in Manchester, England; studied in Aberystwyth, Wales; worked in Sweden and Finland; and taught in Welshpool in Powys and Bewdley in Worcestershire until 2004. She now lives in rural Shropshire with the obligatory collection of spoiled cats. Rachel Cordasco: You have translated many Swedish texts, the majority
