Gandon, Yves
Entry updated 28 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1899-1975) French author. His Le dernier Blanc (1945; trans A M as The Last White Man 1948) depicts, on familiar lines, the chemical warfare of the future featuring a toxin deadly only to whites (see Race in SF). Other sf works include Après les hommes ["After Men"] (1963), involving an ethical ferromagnetic race in the Far Future, and La ville invisible ["The Invisible Town"] (1953). En pays singulier ["In a Remarkable Country"] (coll 1949) contains some sf. [JC/PN]
Yves Pierre Louis Gandon
born Blois, Loior-et-Cher, France: 3 June 1899
died Paris: 12 January 1975
works
- Le dernier Blanc (Paris: Laffont, 1945) [pb/]
- The Last White Man (London: Cassell, 1948) [trans by A M of the above: hb/]
- En pays singulier ["In a Remarkable Country"] (Paris: Henri Lefèbvre, 1949) [coll: pb/]
- La ville invisible ["The Invisible Town"] (Paris: Grasset, 1953) [pb/]
- Après les hommes ["After Men"] (Paris: Laffont, 1963) [pb/]
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