Pierre Bordage (29 January 1955 â 26 December 2025) was a French science fiction author. He won the Cosmos 2000 prize in 1996 for his novel La Citadelle Hyponéros.
Pierre Bordage was born in La Réorthe, Vendée, and was one of France's best-selling science fiction writers. His books have been translated in several European countries (Russia, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Romania, etc.).
He was winner of the 2008 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE for Porteur dâÂÂâmes.
Bordage was influenced by Philip José Farmer, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card, and Star Wars.
Bordage died on 26 December 2025, at the age of 70.
Rohel the conqueror 1992âÂÂ1996
(') 1993âÂÂ1998 Translated into English by Galatea Maman
1996âÂÂ1997
A near future, after the third world war. In a Europe devastated by chemical, nuclear and genetic pollution, the rare intact resources are shared between nomadic tribes who have taken charge of the exploitation of a specific element. Solman the lame man from the Aquarius tribe â who discovers and controls water sources â has a gift of clairvoyance: this gift puts him apart from everybody, as people do not trust him. Except the healer Raima, the mysterious kadija and an old scientist of the old world who accompany him on his quest to escape the apocalypse which seems to menace the last men.