He was educated at École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
He is the author of the steampunk novels Aurorarama (2010),[1] and Luminous Chaos (2013)[2] published by Melville House.
Aurorarama was short-listed for a Red Tentacle Kitschie in 2010, and nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2011.
He also authored two other novels, Exes, and 03,[3] which famous literary critic James Wood picked as one of the best books of 2010, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and a book of short stories, Album.
He has also written the award-winning radio play La vie inimitable[4] and a movie Augustine (2003),[5] which he also co-directed.