Joseph Altairac

Joseph Altairac (25 March 1957 – 9 November 2020) was a French literary critic and essayist.^[1][2]

Joseph Altairac
Altairac in 2001
Born	25 March 1957 France
Died	9 November 2020(2020-11-09) (aged 63) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Literary Critic Essayist

Career

He specialized in science fiction literature and served as secretary of the Prix Rosny-Aîné. His articles and works were largely dedicated to A. E. van Vogt, H. P. Lovecraft, and H. G. Wells.^[3] He also studied subterranean fiction and the history of science fiction in France.

During the 1990s, Altairac published the journal Études lovecraftiennes, a French language equivalent of the American Lovecraft Studies, which led him to direct the "Cahiers d'études lovecraftiennes" at Éditions Encrage.^[4]

Publications

• "Cahiers d'études lovecraftiennes" (series)
• Herbert George Wells : parcours d'une œuvre (1998)
• Alfred E. Van Vogt : parcours d'une œuvre (2000)
• Les Terres creuses : bibliographie commentée des mondes souterrains imaginaires (2006)
• Rétrofictions : encyclopédie de la conjecture romanesque rationnelle francophone, de Rabelais à Barjavel, 1532-1951 (2018)