title: Superheroes in Prose: The 1-4 Collection
author:  Sevan Paris 
description: When Sevan Paris isn't involved in things UTCish, he is doing something incredibly geeky, probably involving superheroes. He enjoys all things comics, Transformers, Science Fiction, and anything George Lucas related prior to 1999. Despite each of these child-like addictions, his wife, Cindy, continues to love him in a super adult-like fashion.
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  INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR THE ARDENT SWARM
  
  
  “Yamen Manai . . . speaks with the accuracy of the scientist and at the same
  time with the fire of the poet and the imagination of the novelist.”
  
  
  —Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, in interview with Patrick Simonin, TV5 Monde
  
  
  “[The Ardent Swarm explores] the problems of contemporary Tunisia but [they
  are] approached in a very gentle, very subtle way, with a smile.”
  
  
  —Yvan Le Perec, France Bleu
  
  
  “What a wonderful little book that is at once an enchantment, a hymn to
  nature, a warning about intolerance and the fundamentalism that threatens us,
  and also a great lesson in courage.”
  
  
  —Gérard Collard, La Griffe Noire
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Excerpt from “Anger” in “Selections from the Bestiary of Leonardo Da Vinci,”
  trans. Oliver Evans, Vol. 64, No. 254, of the Journal of American Folklore, is
  used with permission from the American Folklore Socie