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Pierre Versins

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Documentary about Versins life and work

Pierre Versins (born in Strasbourg,died in Avignon Jacques Chamson January 12, 1923- April 18, 2001) was a French Science Fiction collector and scholar. From 1957-62, he published a critical fanzine, Ailleurs. He published four science fiction novels between 1951 and 1971, including En avant, Mars, Les etoiles ne s'en foutent pas, Leprofesseur, and Les transhumains. His ex-wife, Martine Thomeis credited on the short story"Ceux d'Argos" Versins always precised that her name figures for this only short story,because it was initially her idea("One cent idea")and writed entierely by Pierre Versins,which proper style is fully personal. Versins published Encyclopedie de Utopie et de la sf, which won a special award at Torcon II, the 1973 Worldcon and he won a Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association in 1991. In 1975, he founded the Maison d'Ailleurs, a museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journey in Yverdon-les-Bains, (Switzerland). During World War II, Versins was incarcerated in Auschwitz.


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