Jean-François Roux
After studying law, Jean-François Roux worked in Caen, Lyon, Grenoble, Lognes, Chalans, and Paris. But his true passion was initially fantasy and science fiction literature, which he discovered in high school. Clifford D. Simak's *Tomorrow the Dogs* was the work on which he was questioned for his French baccalaureate exam. Since then, he has broadened his reading to include esotericism, philosophy, and history, as well as certain branches of science. Jean-François Roux has written two novels in the fantasy and mystery genres: *The Fourth Archangel*, published by Eleusis, and, following a call for submissions from L'Harmattan, *The Bone Eater*. With *The Adventures of Ebenezer Void*, he has written his first science fiction novel.
Ebenezer is a lonely boy who lives with his grandparents on a farm in the American Midwest, surrounded by cornfields. One morning, a man dressed in a strict black suit arrives to announce to his grandparents that their grandson has been chosen since the beginning of time to study at the best college in the galaxy. Upon arrival, the boy is immediately warned. He must never reveal his true identity, for humans are a cursed race… The boy will discover a universe governed by the famous law formulated by Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Intelligent creatures from different planets are gathered there to study. Ebenezer's roommate is a tree-dwelling octopus from Betelgeuse, and his best friend is a panther from Sirius who decides to knit him a bulletproof vest. Ebenezer soon realizes that humans are not the only cursed race; there are also surgeons. One of them has managed to infiltrate the school, and the boy will have to confront him. Unless… the surgeons are actually his true friends.
