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2006/06/12
Synthimax has arrived! My latest program for the Macintosh is an ambitious graphic application. Go see it at its very own website.
Born in 1964 in Québec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Longueuil, on the south shore of Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal. Since 1986, he has published over 40 SF & Fantasy short stories in both English and French, and 13 books in French. His first book in English, a Fantasy novel titled The Book of Knights, came out in January 1998 from Tor Books. His writing has netted him several awards, most notably the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois in 1994.
Yves is a collaborator of the Québécois SF magazine Solaris; he has been an anthologist for several projects, most recently the anthology Tesseracts5, published by Tesseract Books. He is one of the founding members of SF Canada. A Macintosh enthusiast from the instant he laid eyes on the machine, he has written several applications for the Mac and is developing more.
He may be contacted at his e-mail address (meynard@videotron.ca) or at his real-world address: 110, rue de la Barre, apt. 524, Longueuil, Québec, J4K 1A3 CANADA.
Brief list of
English-language publications
Novels
The Book of Knights, Tor Books, 1998.
Short stories
"Stolen Fires", Edge Detector #3, 1991.
"Equinox", Tesseracts4, Beach Holme Press, 1992.
"Stolen Fires", reprinted in Northern Stars, Tor Books, 1994.
"Travels Through Torbay", Prairie Fire vol. 15 #2, 1994.
"Nausicaä", tomorrow #13, 1995.
"Child of the Sleeping Worlds", tomorrow #15, 1995.
"Tobacco Words", tomorrow #19, 1996.
(reprinted in Year's Best
SF 2, ed. by David
Hartwell, HarperPrism, 1997)
"Principles of Animal Eugenetics",tomorrow #20, 1996.
"Johann Havel's Marvelous Machine", On Spec #25, 1996.
"Rose of the Desert", tomorrow #23, 1996.
"The Scalemen" (translated by Jane Brierley), TesseractsQ, Tesseract Books, 1996.
"Within the Mechanism", tomorrowsf #25, 1997.
"Song for a Siren" (in collaboration with Elisabeth Vonarburg), in tomorrowsf
"Souvenirs", Tesseracts6, Tesseract Books, 1997.
"The case of the serial "De Québec à la Lune", by Veritatus" (in collaboration with Jean-Louis Trudel), Arrowdreams, 1997.
"A Letter from my Mother", Tesseracts7, Tesseract Books, 1998.
"Within the Mechanism", reprinted in Tesseracts8, Tesseract Books, 1999.
"Kapuzine and the Wolf", Witpunk, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003.
"In Yerusalom", Island Dreams - Montreal Writers of the Fantastic, Véhicule Press, 2003.
"Principles of Animal Eugenetics", reprinted in Tesseracts9, Edge Publications, 2005.
Poems
"Ignis Coelestis", Chiaroscuro, 2003
"Android Sex Show At 8:00 Nitely", The Stars as Seen from this Particular Angle of Night, Red Deer Press, 2004
Publications in
French
Translations
"Laïka" (transl. of "Laika", by Natasha Beaulieu), Tesseracts5, 1996.
"Ève-Marie" ( transl. of "Ève-Marie", by Natasha Beaulieu), Tesseracts7, 1998.
"The Energy of Slaves" ( transl. of "L'énergie des esclaves", by René Beaulieu), Tesseracts8, 1999.
"L'autre festival des masques" ( transl. of "The Lesser Festival of Masks", by Thomas Ligotti), Solaris 128, 1999.
"Stratégies de recyclage à l'intention des quartiers déshérités" ( transl. of "Recycling Strategies for the Inner City", by Pat Murphy), Solaris 128, 1999.
"L'Écume des années" (transl. of "The Lost and Found of Years" by Claude Lalumière), Solaris 154, 2005.
Literary Awards
Technical Articles
When enum Just Isn't Enough: Enumeration Classes for C++, C/C++ Users Journal Online Exclusives, May 2003.
I have developed several applications for the Macintosh. Several graphics apps are available now for download.
I've also developed the Infinity Quest games, action/strategy games somewhat reminiscent of Atari's Gauntlet, and now rather outmoded. Infinity Quest II Demo is still available for download at any of the info-mac mirror sites.
My latest application, a commercial graphics program, is Synthimax. It is available at www.synthimax.com.
As "XLRD", I've posted a few Reason tracks on the Propellerheads website, but you can get them straight from here.
You can download Sonic Elements Vol I from the Propellerheads website. Enjoy!
Reason 3.0 introduces the Combinator, a lovely device which can accept user-created skins. Guess what I've been making? Download the eye-hurting Lavalizer and the more sedate Spots. Use them in your Reason rack and amaze your friends!
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