Serge Brussolo

Serge Brussolo (born 1951) was originally going to become a teacher, but when he sat the certification exams, he composed a fantasy story on the spot instead of the required essay and jettisoned his academic career for writing. Like Philip K. Dick, he made his way into the sci-fi business by writing for fanzines before his breakout success in 1979 with a dystopian Tour de France story, “Funnyway,” which won the Grand prix de la science-fiction française. Since then, he’s published nearly two hundred books (often writing five or six a year) in every possible genre (much like the divers of this book), writing dark fantasy, horror, historical fiction, YA, thrillers, and the occasional straight novel. His books are consistently bestsellers, have won every major French science fiction prize, are considered modern classics, and have been made into movies.