Fernand Kolney

Fernand Kolney (25 May 1868 – 12 March 1930) was the pen name of the French novelist, pamphleteer and journalist Ferdinand Édouard Pochon, who also wrote as Fernand Pochon de Colnet. He was close to the French anarchist movement and was one of the better-known writers of the neo-Malthusian campaign for birth control.

Life Kolney was born in Pantin, in the Seine department. He wrote for the anarchist press, including La Revue anarchiste and the neo-Malthusian review Génération consciente, and contributed a regular column, "Le carnet du guérillero", to the magazine Les Hommes du jour.

Science fiction Kolney's most discussed work of fiction is the science fiction novel L'Amour dans cinq mille ans (1908), which he revised for a 1928 edition retitled L'Amour dans 5000 ans. It was one of a number of French romans scientifiques written after the novels of H. G. Wells became popular in France.

Selected works Le Salon de Madame Truphot (1904; reissued 1927) Les Aubes mauvaises (1905) L'Amour dans cinq mille ans (1908; revised 1928) La Grève des ventres (1908) Le Crime d'engendrer (1909) La Société mourante et le néo-malthusisme (1911) Laurent Tailhade : son œuvre (1922) Love in 5000 Years (2013, English translation by Brian Stableford)