WRITER

Maurice G. Dantec

1959 - 2016

Maurice G. Dantec

Maurice Georges Dantec (French: [dɑ̃tɛk]; 13 June 1959 – 25 June 2016) was a French-born Canadian science fiction writer and musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice G. Dantec has received more than 76,315 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice G. Dantec is the 6,780th most popular writer (down from 5,974th in 2019), the 5,540th most popular biography from France (down from 4,964th in 2019) and the 669th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

76k
Page Views (PV)
38.21
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
15
Languages Editions (L)
2.30
Effective Languages (L*)
2.87
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Babylon babies

1999

Les racines du mal

1995

Laboratoire de catastrophe générale

2001

Le Théâtre des opérations

2000

Cosmos incorporated

Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general

The first major English translation of one of France's most admired writers, Cosmos Incorporated is a triumph of science fiction--a masterwork of cataclysm, mysticism, and suspense.Fifty years of warfare, disease, and strife have decimated the world's population. Those who remain are motes in the mind of UniWorld, a superstate that monitors humanity via a vast computer metastructure that catalog everything about everyone on the planet--race, religion, genetic codes, even fantasies. Those who have the means escape UniWorld's tight control through the Orbital Ring. Though his memory has been wiped clean and his history fabricated in order to pass through UniWorld's check points, Sergei Diego Plotkin knows his name.And he knows his mission: to murder a man in the city of Grand Junction, a Vegas-like outpost that is home to the private launching pad to the Ring. But this sense of purpose is compromised by random memories that flash through Plotkin's brain. England and Argentina. The shores of Lake Baikal. And something else. Something indescribable.Now Plotkin is about to meet his maker. As his identity and mission incrementally resurface in his conscious mind, and in the presence of an eerily beautiful woman, Plotkin will soon discover that he has come here not just to kill but to be born. . . ."Like Houellebecq, Dantec takes inspiration from both high and low culture; he is the sort of writer who cites Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Stooges' Search and Destroy with equal facility."--The New York Times"DNA is to Dantec what the swan was to romantic poetry: an invitation to dream. . . . This rocker-writer teleports us into the cyberpunk beyonds of literature. Fasten your seatbelts!"--Le Nouvel ObservateurFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

2005

Grand junction

Fiction, science fiction, general

2009

Page views of Maurice G. Dantecs by language

Over the past year Maurice G. Dantec has had the most page views in the French wikipedia edition with 27,728 views, followed by English (6,521), and Italian (1,449). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (89.08%), Ukrainian (77.26%), and Southern Azerbaijani (68.28%)