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Toute l'interview est à lire ici.How has French SF influenced the field of science fiction as a whole?
Except for Verne, hardly at all – and except for Poe and Wells, there was very little influence in the other direction, until American SF conquered the world in the post-WWII surge of coca-colonization and all the European traditions of speculative fiction were drowned in the deluge. That’s precisely what makes the early material so interesting, though; because the mutual influence was so muted, one can compare and contrast three distinct ‘‘alternative worlds’’ of speculative fiction. That comparison gives us some inkling of the many ways that science fiction could have developed, in other cultural circumstances. I find that fascinating, although I might be alone in that particular quirkiness.
