Prix Apollo Award
{{Short description|Literary award}}
The Prix Tour-Apollo was an annual French juried award established in 1972 by Jacques Sadoul with the assistance of Jacques Goimard. Its name was chosen in reference to the Apollo 11 rocket. The award was given to the best science fiction novel published in France during the preceding year. Awards were given for the years 1972-1990, inclusive, and usually went to a work first published in English in the US or UK. After the award ended in 1991, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire added a category for best Foreign-Language Novel (translated into French) to continue this category of award.
Winners
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|+Past winners of the Prix Tour-Apollo |
| style="text-align: left"|Year
! style="text-align: left"|Title ! style="text-align: left"|Author ! style="text-align: left"|Publisher |
|---|
| 1972
| L'Île des morts (Isle of the Dead) | OPTA |
| 1973
| Tous à Zanzibar (Stand on Zanzibar) | Robert Laffont |
| 1974
| Rêve de fer (The Iron Dream) | OPTA |
| 1975
| L'Enchâssement (The Embedding) |
| 1976
| Les Ailes de la nuit (Nightwings) | J'ai lu |
| 1977
| Cette chère humanité (Brave Old World) |
| 1978
| La Ruche d'Hellstrom (Hellstrom's Hive) |
| 1979
| La Grande Porte (Gateway) | Calmann-Lévy |
| 1980
| Persistance de la vision (The Persistence of Vision) | Short story collection by John Varley | Denoël |
| 1981
| Le Temps des genevriers (Juniper Time) | Denoël |
| 1982
| L'Idiot-roi (Symbiote's Crown) | J'ai lu |
| 1983
| Robert Laffont |
| 1984 |
| 1985
| La Citadelle de l'Autarque (The Citadel of the Autarch) | Denoël |
| 1986
| La Musique du sang (Blood Music) |
| 1987
| Les Voies d'Anubis (The Anubis Gates) | J'ai lu |
| 1988
| La Compagnie des glaces (The Ice Company) | Fleuve noir |
| 1989
| Le Pays du fou rire (The Land of Laughs) | J'ai Lu |
| 1990
| Denoël |
The 1988 award was for the entire series of 36 books that began with La Compagnie des glaces in 1980; the series carries the same name. The full series includes 98 books, the first 36 of which were published in the Anticipation series by Fleuve Noir in 1980-87. (Books 37-62 were published by Fleuve Noir in their own series starting in 1988.) The first book in this series is available in English and French, but (according to WorldCat) the later books in the series are available only in French.
Aside from the later books in the La Compagnie des glaces series, all but three of these winning books are available in English as well as French, and most are available in other languages as well (see the ISFDB external link for details). As of 2013-12-28, Argentine is available only in French, Les semeurs d'abimes only in French and Italian, and L'Orbe et la roue only in French and Spanish.
References
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French Wikipedia article on Prix Tour-Apollo. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Apollo.html Prix Tour-Apollo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524103322/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Apollo.html |date=2012-05-24 }} at The Locus Index to SF Awards, Locus Publications. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
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External links
- [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?2 Prix Tour-Apollo] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Links to individual winners.
- [http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/compagnieglaces.htm The Ice Company] at Cool French Comics.
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Category:French science fiction awards
Category:French-language literary awards
Category:French literary awards
Category:Awards established in 1972
Category:1972 establishments in France