La Citadelle Hyponéros brings to a close a space opera that is not only a rather sophisticated space adventure, but also a treatise on the exercise of power, be it secular or religious. Jacques Baudou, Le Monde In eight years he has sold hundreds of thousands of copies of his novels. L'Atalante, a Nantes-based publishing company, accepted The Warriors of Silence. By word of mouth the sales of the novel reached 50,000 copies. ‘The milieu was wondering who this writer was. Added to the fact that he was French, he was also being published by an up-market publishing house.’ Very rapidly the name Pierre Bordage has become a benchmark in the genre because he knows how to enthral...