Russian-born Nathalie Henneberg (1917-1977) was a precursor of modern French heroic fantasy. She often collaborated with, Charles Henneberg zu Irmelshausen Wasungen (1899-1959).Their first novel, the Rosny Award winning La Naissance des Dieux [The Birth Of The Gods] (1954) adapted Greek and Nordic mythologies in a science fiction context. Le Chant des Astronautes [The Astronauts' Song] (1958) dealt with the battle against energy creatures from Algol. An Premier, Ere Spatiale [Year 1 Of The Space Era] (1959) was about the first faster-than-light spaceship. Finally, La Rosée du Soleil [The Dew Of The Sun] (1959) told the adventures of the four crewmen of a spaceship stranded on an alien world. After Charles’s death, Nathalie continued to write, increasingly relying on fantasy rather than science fiction elements. Les Dieux Verts [The Green Gods] (1961) takes place in the future, when Man’s Empire is on the decline and the world is ruled by powerful entities from the vegetal kingdom. Le Sang des Astres [The Blood Of The Stars] (1963) was a colorful fantasy in which an astronaut from the year 2700 journeys to a medieval Earth-like world ruled by kabbala. Her masterpiece was La Plaie [The Plague] (1964), a sprawling 600-page novel that told of the desperate battle by a handful of humans and angel-like mutants against a wave of pure evil sweeping the galaxy, which incarnates itself in the bodies of the “Nocturnes” [Nocturnals].   novels: The Green Gods (forthcoming)