Côté, Denis
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1954- ) Canadian author whose first two novels, marketed like their successors as juveniles, were Les Hockeyeurs cybernétiques (1983; trans lated by Jane Brierley as Shooting for the Stars 1990), a tale marked by a high degree of invention in its depiction of the adventures of the eponymous hockey player and a female journalist in Lost Ark, a Dystopia; further volumes in the Inactifs sequence include L'idole des inactifs ["A Star for the Idle Masses"] (1989), La Révolte des inactifs ["The Rebellion of the Idle Masses"] (1990) and Le Retour des inactifs ["The Return of the Idle Masses"] (1991). An early singleton, Les Parallèles célestes ["The Celestial Parallels"] (1983), also demonstrates considerable literary ambition and talent in its depiction of a First Contact experience. Some of his short stories are non-juvenile. [LP/JC]
Denis Côté
born Quebec City, Quebec: 1 January 1954
works (selected)
- Les Hockeyeurs cybernétiques (Montreal, Quebec: Editions Paulines, 1983) [pb/Gérard Dansereau]
- Shooting for the Stars (Coatsworth, Ontario: Black Moss Press, 1990) [trans by Jane Brierly of the above: pb/]
- Les Parallèles célestes ["The Celestial Parallels"] (Montreal, Quebec: HMH, 1983) [pb/Robert Théroux]
- Les Géants de blizzard ["The Giants in the Blizzard"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1985) [chap: pb/Stéphane Poulin]
- Les Prisonniers du zoo ["Prisoners of the Zoo"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1988) [chap: pb/Stéphane Poulin]
- L'idole des inactifs ["A Star for the Idle Masses"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1989) [pb/]
- La Révolte des inactifs ["The Rebellion of the Idle Masses"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1990) [pb/]
- Le Retour des inactifs ["The Return of the Idle Masses"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1991) [pb/]
- Terminus cauchemar ["Terminus Nightmare"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1991) [pb/]
- Les Yeux d'émeraude ["Eyes of Emerald"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1991) [chap: pb/]
- Descente aus enfers ["Descent into Hell"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 1994) [pb/]
- La machination du Scorpion Noir ["Plot of the Black Scorpion"] (Montreal, Quebec: La Courte Échelle, 2004) [chap: pb/]
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