Stories of the Future and the End of History in 1990s French Science Fiction

Bernard Werber’s Poetics of Ecological Reconstruction: “In Praise of Amnesia”?

“…Since Werber published his first novel in 1991, the French landscape of fiction about the future has grown considerably with regard to quantity and diversity, but the focus of most French writers on national or global matters tends to eclipse environmental concerns, as Simon Bréan aptly notes about science fiction from the 1990s. 36 When the natural world is shown to interact with humankind in the future, it is typically in terms of harshly dystopic encounters or exterminationsas in the six volumes of the Autre-monde cycle of popular writer Maxime Chattam, 37 Céline Minard's post-apocalyptic novel, 38 or Jeanne-A Debats's fantasy. 39 Werber is the lone voice of ecological utopias in France.…”