Andrevon, Jean-Pierre (b. 1937). A French writer of polemical science fiction, of left-wing persuasion, Andrevon uses the future to pursue a critique of present-day social and ecological issues. He entered print in 1968 when, according to him, French science fiction had its unpoliticized head in the clouds. His novels thus belong to ‘l'anticipation à moyen terme', and particularly to the ‘tradition catastrophiste’ (e.g. Le Désert du monde, 1977; Visiteurs d'apocalypse, 1990), although he has also investigated time-travel (Le Temps cyclothymique, 1974) and the vagaries of inner space (e.g. Sous le regard des étoiles, 1989). This last preoccupation is the source of Cauchemars de sang (1986), one of his two contributions to the Collection Gore (Fleuve Noir Horreur).
[Clive Scott]
