Ségur, Nicolas
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of Greek journalist and author Nikólaos Episkopópoulos (1874-1944), in France from 1902, having already published in various Greek journals in the 1890s under his own name; his French publications were always as by Ségur. Long association with Anatole France resulted in several nonfiction studies and memoirs [not listed below]. Two of his works of sf interest, both of them reflecting a sense of the Decadence of the West after World War One, have been assembled as The Human Paradise (omni trans Brian Stableford 2017): Une Ile d'Amour ["The Island of Love"] (1921) is a Utopia where free love has been instituted as a solution to the seemingly intractable confusions of human Sex; and Le Paradis des Hommes ["The Human Paradise"] (1930), a Satire in the mode of his mentor Anatole France, in which God promises to grant humanity's most dearly held wishes, but only if they can be unanimously presented. [JC]
Nikólaos Episkopópoulos
born Zakynthos, Greece: 1874
died 22 March 1944
works (highly selected)
- Une Ile d'Amour ["The Island of Love"] (1921) [binding unknown/]
- Le Paradis des Hommes ["The Human Paradise"] (1930) [binding unknown/]
- The Human Paradise (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2017) [omni trans by Brian Stableford of the above two: pb/Mike Hoffman]
- Penelope's Secret (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2017) [trans by Brian Stableford of three novellas: pb/Mike Hoffman]
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