Annonce du gagnant du concours de fanfiction Folio SF», sur Folio SF (consulté le 12 octobre 2015). However, thermal exchanges mean that hurricane-force winds are frequently funnelled westward down this band. Alain Damasio also wrote the script of WindWalkers, an animation film taken from La Horde du Contrevent with Jan Kounen as director and Marc Caro as art director. Les Aiguilleurs du ciel (Air Traffic Controllers), in Onze pour Mille (One out of a Thousand), Cylibris, 2000 In secondo luogo, il limite più grande: avere 23 personaggi e non sfruttarli tutti. I personaggi che servono all'intreccio sono solo cinque o sei, più un paio che non hanno senso per 500 pagine, salvo poi incarnare il deus ex machina per risolvere una situazione di stallo. In questo senso, Martin (per dirne uno) è un maestro, mentre Damasio è uno scolaro che sta affrontando l'esame di riparazione.

SACD (French authors' organization) prize for digital Creation 2014 for Remember Me and the whole of his digital creation Je me délectai de chaque touche de poésie, de philosophie, de voyage et de découverte, de réflexion toujours judicieuse. To make it short: La Horde du Contrevent, aka The Horde of Counterwind is a french (sci-fi) novel, written by Alain Damasio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Damasio), and it is a pure masterpiece. You must read it if you can. Spearhead members have two kinds of hunting birds (falcons and “ulturs”), which are an efficient way to find food.

In 2020 he participated in the french documentary Un pays qui se tient sage about police violence and the handling of the "Gilets Jaunes" movement.

Some of the hardware — notably the carabiners and tethers — is very similar to late XX th Century climbing equipment. This Horde of Windwarders has also been the fastest.They are three years ahead of their fastest predecessors. The fighter-protector also uses repeater crossbows (“mechabows”), boomerangs and long knives.Their two mechabows are forearms-mounted, so they can fire whilst hanging from their airfoil. Ho finito questo libro ieri sera, a notte inoltrata, perchè non riuscivo a smettere di leggere. Solo nella giornata di ieri, ho letto 388 pagine. Non riuscivo a fermarmi. Ho iniziato la mattina alle 8 e ho smesso la sera alle undici. Ho contrato, insieme ai personaggi, pagina dopo pagina, capitolo dopo capitolo, ora dopo ora.Even from the beginning, there are hints that this quest is misguided. For example, in the first chapter they pass a city. If there is a city further upwind from where the groups start, then why, after hundreds of years of these hordes, haven't they moved the starting point further upwind? Other revelations in further chapters raise more such issues. The characters themselves aren't immune from wondering, and this becomes one of the major themes of the book: what gives meaning to your quest? or to your life? How do you continue fighting in the face of enormous obstacles when you're not even sure that what you're fighting for makes sense. The characters are all very different and thus find different reasons for continuing.