Thierry Martens Explained

Thierry Martens
Birth Date:	1942 1, df=yes
Birth Place:	Louvain
Death Place:	Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Nationality:	Belgian
Other Names:	Yves Varende

Thierry Martens (29 January 1942 – 27 June 2011) was a Belgian author who wrote science fiction, detective novels, short stories and comics under the pen name Yves Varende.

Career

Martens was the editor of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou between 1968 and 1977. He published several highly documented anthologies^[1] and studies about popular "Holmesian-style" French-language crime novels of the early twentieth century.^[2] Martens also authored some dark Holmesian pastiches in French as well as super-science novels.^[3]

Works

Sci-fi novels

• Les Gadgets de l'Apocalypse (1978)
• Les Tueurs de l'Ordre (1980)
• Tuez les Tous (1980)

Non-fiction studies

• Introduction to the Belgian re-edition (in French language) of the "Lord Lister, genannt Raffles, der Meisterdieb" German pulp magazine, introducing the fictional character Raffles (also known as Lord Lister) - Claude Lefrancq Editeur Brussels 1995 (Vol.I) 1996 (Vol.II)

Holmesian novels

• Le Requin de la Tamise Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1997
• le Tueur dans le Fog
• Le Secret de l'Ile au Chien
• Les Meurtres du Titanic Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1998
• L'otage de Fraulein Doktor
• Sherlock Holmes et les Fantômes anthology (Fleuve noir 1999)

Anthologies

• Sherlock Holmes revient : an anthology of six German anonymous short stories (translated into French) originally published between 1907 and 1911. Introduction authored by editor/translator. (1996, éditions Fleuve Noir, collection Super Poche n° 27)

See also

• A. J. Raffles vs. the contemporary German Lord Lister

External links

• Sherlock Holmes revient
• L'Echo du Canon the French Sherlock Holmes society quarterly
• The European Wold Newton Universe - detectives characters section

Notes and References

1. c.f. the introduction to the mentioned Lord Lister's anthology and "Sherlock Holmes revient" in the bibliography section
2. See his introduction and foreword as editor of the Belgian re-edition of the Lord Lister short stories
3. http://www.123people.fr/ext/frm?ti=person%20finder&search_term=yves%20varende&search_country=FR&st=person%20finder&target_url=http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc%3DX3oDMTVnYmNvaWFrBF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDc1k3Wlo2clYzNEhSZm5ZdGVmcmkzRUx4VG5makpERG5QOWVKV1NG. The Belgian fantasy literature