J.-H. Rosny

J.-H. Rosny was the pseudonym of the brothers Joseph Henri Honor? Boex (1856 - 1940) and S?raphin Justin Fran?ois Boex (1859 - 1948), both born in Brussels. Together they wrote a series of novels and short stories about natural, prehistoric and fantasy subjects, published between between 1886 and 1909, as well as several popular science works. After 1909, the two brothers ended their collaboration, and Joseph Boex took to signing his works as J.-H. Rosny a?n? (J. H. Rosny Sr.), while his brother Seraphin used the name J.-H. Rosny jeune. (J. H. Rosny Jr.) In 1903, the Boex brothers were named to the first jury for the Prix Goncourt, an influential annual French literary award. They are considered to be among the founders of modern science fiction.

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Of the two, the elder brother Joseph (J.-H. Rosny a?n?) is somewhat better known and many of the joint Rosny works are incorrectly attributed only to the elder brother. Of their books, La Guerre du feu is the best known, especially after it was made into a motion picture in 1981.

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Pseudonym: A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e.g., when ghostwriting a book or play, or in parody, or when using a front ...

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