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Thierry Martens

{{Short description|Belgian short story writer and comic}}

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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

Martens was the editor of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou between 1968 and 1977. He published several highly documented anthologiesc.f. the introduction to the mentioned Lord Lister's anthology and "Sherlock Holmes revient" in the bibliography section and studies about popular "Holmesian-style" French-language crime novels of the early twentieth century.See his introduction and foreword as editor of the Belgian re-edition of the Lord Lister short stories Martens also authored some dark Holmesian pastiches in French as well as super-science novels.[http://www.123people.fr/ext/frm?ti=person%20finder&search_term=yves%20varende&search_country=FR&st=person%20finder&target_url=http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc%3DX3oDMTVnYmNvaWFrBF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDc1k3Wlo2clYzNEhSZm5ZdGVmcmkzRUx4VG5makpERG5QOWVKV1NG. The Belgian fantasy literature ]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}

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Works

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=Sci-fi novels=

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

=Non-fiction studies=

  • 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=

  • 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=

  • 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

Notes

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External links

  • [http://sf.emse.fr/AUTHORS/YVARENDE/yvshr.html Sherlock Holmes revient]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100308234600/http://www.sherlock-holmes.org/echo/index.htm L'Echo du Canon the French Sherlock Holmes society quarterly]
  • [http://ratmmjess.tripod.com/timeline4.html The European Wold Newton Universe - detectives characters section]

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Category:Belgian writers in French

Category:Belgian science fiction writers

Category:Sherlock Holmes

Category:1942 births

Category:2011 deaths