Böcker av Moussa Ould Ebnou

Honeymoon on the Moon And Other Stories is a collection of science-fiction short stories written by Mauritanian author Moussa Ould Ebnou. A unique blend of science fiction and mysticism, history and myth, truth and fiction, philosophy and literature, this book is chock- full of unexpected twists, including an ill-fated vacation to the moon (in "Honeymoon on the Moon"), a dystopian future where animals tyrannize humans (in "Human Pet"), the implantation of digitized French language and culture into the minds of nomadic desert children (in "Lub-dub"), parthenogenetic reproduction in an all-female world (in "Moonless Earth"), French-speaking extraterrestrials from the future trying to save their language from extinction (in "The Author and his Characters"), magical djinns (in "A Glimpse into the Future"), futuristic societies where love between men and women is banned (in "The Bonds of Love"), the doomed love affair and fight against oppression in a dystopian Saharan wasteland (in "Gara, Time Traveler"), the mysterious demonic affliction of an archaeologist (in "A Dream from the Future"), and a time-traveling Mauritanian tour guide (in "The Chrononaut Librarian"). The exploration of varied and transdisciplinary themes such as Mauritanian history and culture, philosophy, Islamic tradition and mythology, dominant languages, colonization, sexual identities and non-sexual reproduction, environmental ethics, animal rights, and the narrator's role in literature, all through the lens of science-fiction, will be of great interest to English speaking audiences looking for new voices and perspectives in science fiction. This will be the first English translation of this collection of short stories (62,228 words), and includes three new stories in addition to the seven stories in the original French book, Fragments de futurs (Diwan Editions, 2016). The author, Moussa Ould Ebnou, was born in Boutilimit, Mauritania. He earned his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and is a philosophy professor at the University of Nouakchott in Mauritania. He has written several novels and collections of short stories in French and has self-translated many of them into Arabic. He owns DIWAN publishing house, which specializes in publishing Saharan science fiction.

In the distant future, while studying the land of Barzakh in the Sahara, members of the Institute for the Archeology of Human Thought unearth the bones of Gara, a young man, whose Myelin will unravel the secrets of his ancient consciousness. A foreigner in his own land, Gara, in search of a better humanity, has traveled through three eras, from the 11th-century deserts of Mauritania to the dystopic future, inadvertently sowing the seeds of his own destruction.An innovative masterpiece that symphonizes mysticism, religion, and Mauritanian culture into a dystopian reflection on the human condition, this unique blend of science fiction and philosophy will interest those looking for new voices and perspectives in science fiction.

Des archéologues du futur, qui visitaient les tombes à la recherche de vestiges enfouis des consciences disparues, ont exhumé un squelette et découvert dans son crâne des traces de myéline sous forme de cristaux solides. Les cristaux de myéline renferment des copies partielles ou transcripts qui contiennent des informations sur la vitesse, l'amplitude et la fréquence des trains d'ondes de dépolarisation caractérisant l'activité des cellules nerveuses. Ils ont décodé les transcripts, reconstruisant ainsi le flux d'une conscience durant la phase typique de l'agonie. Ce flux de conscience a constitué un témoignage fictif ou une fiction testimoniale sur la vie de Gara qui s'est étalée sur plus de dix siècles !

L'Amour Impossible relate l'histoire d'Adam et de Maniké. Entre ironie et désespoir, nous suivons l'évolution de leurs sentiments dans une société hermétique à l'amour. Le roman décrit cette société où les hommes et les femmes ne s'aiment plus et ne conçoivent plus d'enfants ensemble à cause d'une guerre des sexes sans nom. Joan Grandjean, ONORIENT, juillet 2017.

Ce recueil réunit un ensemble de textes d'une qualité exceptionnelle. Des extraterrestres francophones qui réincarnent les personnages de roman dans des avatars vivants. Des archéologues de la pensée humaine qui reconstituent le carnet d'un voyageur temporel qui a traversé dix siècles à la recherche d'une humanité meilleure. Un moi futur qui communique par mail avec son moi passé. La Terre sans la Lune. Des cerveaux quantiques. La numérisation totale de la mémoire humaine. Une humanité où la mixité et le sentiment sont interdits. Autant de questions soulevées dans des nouvelles toutes plus originales les unes que les autres. L'¿uvre d'un auteur dont on n'a pas oublié La Mecque païenne, roman publié dans la même collection. Moussa Ould Ebnou, écrivain mauritanien, bâtit son futur en disséquant le présent avec une virtuosité implacable.