Michel Jeury

Michel Jeury (23 January 1934 – 9 January 2015) was a French science fiction writer, reputed in the 1970s. He also used the pseudonym of Albert Higon.

Michel Jeury was born in Razac-d'Eymet.

He began writing science fiction 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), featuring a cosmic battle between the alien races: the T’Loons and the incomprehensible Glutons, and La Machine du Pouvoir [The Machine Of Power] (1960), which won the 1960 Jules Verne Award.

Jeury returned to the French science fiction scene with the Philip K. Dick-inspired Chronolysis [Le Temps incertain] (1973 - English translation: 1980) and Les Singes du Temps [The Time Monkeys] (1974): both taking place in the same universe, they made him one of the most important writers in the French science fiction scene of the 1970s. Both novels dealt with time travel and its manipulation through the use of “chronolytic” drugs. Their protagonists were “psychronauts”, helpless explorers of a confusing, multidimensional universe, facing threats from alternate universes.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Jeury continued to produce a number of original novels. Le Territoire Humain [The Human Territory] (1979) featured an oasis of humanity existing on the borders of a dehumanized megastate. Les Yeux Géants [The Giant Eyes] (1980) theorized that modern-day UFOs are but projections of ma…