Of all the authors who followed in the footsteps of Jules Verne, the most important was Albert Robida (1848-1926), a writer/artist who was also the founding father of science fiction illustration. Robida wrote and illustrated his own scientific anticipations,such as Voyages Très Extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879), his masterpiece Le Vingtième Siècle (1883), La Guerre au Vingtième Siècle (1883), and La Vie Électrique (1890).   Robida was not only a gifted artist and the author of remarkable novels. In a different vein, he wrote L'Horloge des Siècles [The Clock Of The Centuries] (1902), in which time runs backwards (a theme later explored in Philip K. Dick's Counter-clock World (1967)) and L'Ingénieur von Satanas (1919). novels: The Clock of the Centuries (2008), The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul (2009), Chalet in the Sky (forthcoming) short story: News from the Moon (2007)