- Source: La Compagnie des glaces
La Compagnie des glaces ("The Ice Company") is a series of 97 post-apocalyptic science fiction novels by the French writer Georges-Jean Arnaud, published between 1980 and 2005.
Its setting is the Earth of the far future, covered by ice and governed dictatorially by railroad companies. In addition to science fiction, the novels also exhibit elements of crime and spy fiction.
The series was adapted, in part, for television (Grand Star), and as a comics series. It also inspired a video game (Transarctica) and an anime series (Yoshiyuki Tomino's Overman King Gainer).
Novels
All novels were published by Fleuve noir. The first volume received the 1988 Prix Apollo. It is the only one to have been translated into English. When the book was published as The Ice Company in 2010 (ISBN 978-1-935558-31-6), the foreword mentioned that the translators Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier translated the novel into English in 1987 for Fleuve noir to find an American publisher. This translation also included a short list of plot summaries of all volumes that were released up to that point.
= La Compagnie des glaces
=The main series concluded in 1992 with the sixty-second volume.
= Chroniques glaciaires
=The Chroniques glaciaires ("Glacier Chronicles") cover the period of Earth's glacification.
= La nouvelle Compagnie des Glaces
=The La nouvelle Compagnie des Glaces (The New Ice Company) novels began publication in 2001 and continue the original plot fifteen years later.
Adaptations
= Games
=Jeux Actuels published a pen-and-paper roleplaying game based on the series in 1986.
The video game Transarctica (1992) by Silmarils was inspired by the setting and plot of the novels.
= Comics
=Dargaud published a bande dessinée adaptation of the series, written by Philippe Bonifay. Originally projected to run for 100 volumes, the series ended after 15 volumes (covering roughly the first ten novels) because of its limited commercial success.
List of volumes
Jdrien cycle
Lien Rag (2003)
Floa Sadon (2003)
Kurts (2004)
Frère Pierre (2004)
Jdrou (2005)
Yeuse (2005)
Pietr (2005)
Cabaret Miki cycle
Le Peuple du sel (2006)
Otage des glaces (2006)
Zone Occidentale (2007)
Big Tube (2007)
La Fin d'un Rêve (2008)
La Compagnie de la banquise cycle
Terror Point (2008)
Terre de feu, terre de sang (2009)
Le Feu de la Discorde (2009)
The setting of La compagnie des glaces also bears close similarity to that of the 1982 French comics series Le Transperceneige, adapted as the film Snowpiercer in 2013.
= TV series
=La Compagnie des glaces was adapted as a youth television series in 2006 in a low-budget French-Canadian co-production, titled Grand Star in English. The main character, Cal Ragg, was played by Tyler Johnston. The plot of the 26 episodes that were produced is substantially different from that of the novels.
= Anime
=La Compagnie des glaces also inspired the 26-episode anime series Overman King Gainer (2002) by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of Gundam.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Saint-Gobain
- La Compagnie des glaces
- Grand Star
- Georges-Jean Arnaud
- Prix Apollo Award
- Overman King Gainer
- Transarctica
- Hall of Mirrors
- Laurent Genefort
- Saint-Gobain
- Béatrice Tillier
