Michel Jeury (born 1934) began writing science fiction novels under the pseudonym of Albert Higon and penned two space operas for the Rayon Fantastique imprint of publishers Hachette and Gallimard: Aux Étoiles du Destin [Destiny's Stars] (1960) and La Machine du Pouvoir [The Machine Of Power] (1960), which won the 1960 Jules Verne Award. Jeury returned to science fiction scene with Chronolysis [Le Temps incertain] (1973) and Les Singes du Temps [The Time Monkeys] (1974), which made him one of the most important writers of the 1970s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Jeury continued to produce a number of remarkably original novels of the highest literary quality, such as Le Territoire Humain [The Human Territory] (1979), Les Yeux Géants [The Giant Eyes] (1980), and L'Orbe et la Roue [The Orb And The Wheel] (1982). In 1979, Jeury became a regular contributor to Fleuve Noir’s Anticipation imprint, for which he wrote a total of 19 novels between 1980 and 1992, creating an interconnected book series that developed elements that had already been hinted at in the earlier works, progressively building a “Jeury Universe” that included the notions of "chronolysis" and history being manipulated by "geoprogrammers". That same universe was further developed in the trilogy of the Colmateurs [The Pluggers], starting in 1981. In the late 1980s, Jeury turned to writing a number of mainstream best-selling novels about life in his native southwestern France at the turn of the century. novels: Chronolysis (forthcoming)