Fleuve Noir Anticipation

Fleuve Noir Anticipation was a science fiction imprint of the French publisher Fleuve noir, which encompassed 2001 novels published from 1951 to 1997. Aimed at a broad audience, Fleuve Noir Anticipation focused on space opera and topics of popular interest.

The imprint exerted great influence on French science fiction and launched the career of several noted French writers including Stefan Wul, Kurt Steiner, Louis Thirion, Doris and Jean-Louis Le May, Jimmy Guieu and B. R. Bruss.

Fleuve Noir Anticipation was launched in September 1951. It consisted of paperback books sold at a low price but distinguished by sophisticated cover art by René Brantonne. Topics followed the tastes of the period, with more than half of the titles published in the 1950s and 60s belonging to the space opera genre.

Fleuve noir cultivated mostly "house writers", notably Jimmy Guieu and F. Richard-Bessière. But it also recruited young French-language authors, and motivated thriller writers to try writing science fiction, such as Georges-Jean Arnaud, who published his first genre texts in the series. According to George Edgar Slusser, Fleuve Noir Anticipation was where the leading French science fiction authors of the 1970s published their first novels.

Numbering the books published under the Fleuve Noir Anticipation imprint is complicated because some were republished and some were initially published hors série, outside of the series. Lists of the entire series were compiled by Roland C. Wagner in the last volume of the collection and by Alain Douilly.

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