Georges-Jean Arnaud (1928- ) is a prolific writer, the author of well over 300 novels in different genres, including espionage thrillers, detective fiction, science fiction, horror, erotic fiction, and mainstream literature. He wrote espionage and detective novels under the pseudonyms of "Saint-Gilles" and "Georges Murey" for Ferenczi (1958-60) and L'Arabesque (1957-65), and another hundred-plus novels under his own name for Fleuve Noir's "Espionnage" and " Spécial-Police" imprints (1961-86). He made his first appearance in the "Anticipation" imprint in 1971 with Les Croisés de Mara [The Crusaders Of Mara] the first volume of a trilogy entitled Chroniques de la Longue Séparation [Chronicles of the Long Separation], in which a group of characters from the lost human colony of Mara, which had reverted to feudalism, rediscovered their origins and then embarked on a quest through space to find Earth.   novels: The Ice Company