First Round of 2016 Prix Bob Morane Nominees

Here are the works under consideration for the Prix Bob Morane from the first half of 2015. The Prix Bob Morane is a French literary prize named for a fictional adventurer created by Belgian writer Henri Vernes in the 1950s. Title translations in English copied from the Europa SF news story:

Francophone novels

  • Jean-Claude Dunyach – “L’instinct du troll” (The Instinct of the Troll), L’Atalante
  • Yves and Ada Remy  – “Le mont 84? (Mount 84), Dystopia Workshop
  • Laurent Whale – “Le manuscrit Robinson” (The Robinson Manuscript), Critic
  • Laurent Genefort  – “Lum’en”, Le Bélial
  • Paul Beorn – “Le septième guerrier mage” (The Seventh Magus Warrior), Bragelonne
  • Jean-Laurent Del Socorro  – “Royaume de vent et de colères” (Kingdom of Wind and Anger), Actusf Editions
  • Manon Fargetton – “L’héritage des rois passeurs” (The Legacy of the Crossing Kings), Bragelonne
  • Stéphane Przybylski – “Le château des millions d’années” (The Millions Years Castle), Le Bélial

Translated novels

  • Christopher Priest (UK)- “L’adjacent” (The Adjacent), Denoël (traduit par Jacques Collin)
  • Alastair Reynolds (UK)“La terre bleue de nos souvenirs” (Blue Remembered Earth), Bragelonne (translated by Laurent Queyssi)
  • Chris Beckett (UK) – “Dark Eden“, Presses de la Cité (translated by Laurent-Philibert Caillat)
  • Marcel Theroux (UK)- “Corps variables” (Strange Bodies), Plon (translated by Stéphane Roques)
  • Jo Walton (UK-Canada) – “Le cercle de Farthing” (Farthing), Denoël (translated by Luc Carissimo)

Short stories

  • Phil Becker“Fleurs de lune” (Moon Flowers), in Fiction Magazine n°20
  • Sébastien Juillard  – “Il faudrait pour grandir oublier la frontière” (To Grow We Should Forget the Border), Scylla
  • Li Cam – “Asulon”, Griffe D’Encre
  • Ken Liu (US)- “La ménagerie de papier” (The Paper Menagerie), Le Bélial

Essays

  • Patrice Louinet – “Le guide Howard” (The Robert E.Howard Guide), Actusf
  • Richard Comballot  – “Philip K. Dick, simulacres et illusions” (Philip K.Dick, Simulacra and Illusions), Actusf

The selections were made by a jury of French professionals — writers, journalists, critics, collection curators.

The current members of the award jury are Stéphanie Alcésilas, Marc Bailly, Fabien Clavel, Christophe Corthouts, René-Marc Dolhen, Michel Dufranne, Pierre Gévart, Emmanuel Gob, Gulzar Joby, Jean-Marc Ligny, Cathy Martin, and Alain Walsh.