A Century of Science Fiction by Damon Knight

Author:Damon Knight [Knight, Damon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Sci-Fi Anthology
Publisher: Dell Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Unnoticed by most American s.f. writers and publishers, a science fiction renaissance has been going on in France since 1953, the year in which Maurice Renault founded the magazine Fiction.

Fiction calls itself the French edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and translations of stories from that magazine account for something over half its contents. But under the patient encouragement of Renault and his editor, Alain Dorémieux, an almost miraculous growth of native talent has taken place in the last ten years. Fiction today regularly publishes the work of a dozen or more capable young French writers, of whom six or seven are as good as the best American and British s.f. writers.

Here is one example from Fiction, May 1960—a story of invading aliens written by a young Parisian journalist and film critic. The theme is a familiar one, but Claude Veillot has given it a new resonance of horror: “Today, the reality is this vile sound, this quiet and continuous grating noise whose significance I now know.”

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