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Thierry Martens

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Belgian short story writer and comic
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Thierry Martens
Thierry Martens, 2010
Born(1942年01月29日)29 January 1942
Died27 June 2011(2011年06月27日) (aged69)
OthernameYves Varende

Thierry Martens (29 January 1942 – 27 June 2011) was a Belgian author who wrote science fiction, detective novels, short stories and comics under the pen name Yves Varende.

Career

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Martens was the editor of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou between 1968 and 1977. He published several highly documented anthologies[1] and studies about popular "Holmesian-style" French-language crime novels of the early twentieth century.[2] Martens also authored some dark Holmesian pastiches in French as well as super-science novels.[3]

Works

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The original Lord Lister was a German avatar of the French Arsène Lupin and Fantomas characters and of the English A.J. Raffles as well.

Sci-fi novels

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  • Les Gadgets de l'Apocalypse (1978)
  • Les Tueurs de l'Ordre (1980)
  • Tuez les Tous (1980)

Non-fiction studies

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  • Introduction to the Belgian re-edition (in French language) of the "Lord Lister, genannt Raffles, der Meisterdieb" German pulp magazine, introducing the fictional character Raffles (also known as Lord Lister) - Claude Lefrancq Editeur Brussels 1995 (Vol.I) 1996 (Vol.II)

Holmesian novels

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  • Le Requin de la Tamise Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1997
  • le Tueur dans le Fog
  • Le Secret de l'Ile au Chien
  • Les Meurtres du Titanic Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1998
  • L'otage de Fraulein Doktor
  • Sherlock Holmes et les Fantômes anthology (Fleuve noir 1999)

Anthologies

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  • Sherlock Holmes revient : an anthology of six German anonymous short stories (translated into French) originally published between 1907 and 1911. Introduction authored by editor/translator. (1996, éditions Fleuve Noir, collection Super Poche n° 27)

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ cf. the introduction to the mentioned Lord Lister's anthology and "Sherlock Holmes revient" in the bibliography section
  2. ↑ See his introduction and foreword as editor of the Belgian re-edition of the Lord Lister short stories
  3. ↑ The Belgian fantasy literature [permanent dead link ]
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