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Jean-Christophe Valtat is a French writer and teacher. He is the author of the novel Aurorarama (2010), published by Melville House, as well as two novels, Exes, and 03, which famous literary critic James Wood (critic) picked as one of the best books of 2010, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and a book of short stories, Album. He has also written the award-winning radio play La vie inimitable and a movie Augustine (2003), which he also co-directed. He was educated at Ecole Normale Superieure and the Sorbonne. He is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature in the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France where he researches Romantic, modern and contemporary literature and the relationships between literature, science, technology and the media.

Aurorarama: This glittering Tesla-punk 19th century novel pastiche actually works

Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat

Other reviewers on Fanlit will probably be surprised by the number of stars I’ve given this book, because they’ve had to read my kvetching about it for several Status Updates. I finally finished it, and to my surprise, I think in Aurorarama, Valtat succeeded in his Tesla-punk 19th century adventure novel pastiche.

It is early in the 20th century, and New Venice is a city in the Arctic, powered by Tesla-like machines, filled with art, music, entertainment, drugs, censorship, science and magic.

Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Jean-Christophe Valtat | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |

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