Probably a key Fortean.
Henri-René Guieu was born 19 March 1926 in Aix en Provence, France, another of the late generation of Forteans. I do not know much about his early life, but there is some evidence he developed an interest in reading and the esoteric at a young age. According to Bradford Lyau’s essential “The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction,” he joined the French Resistance during World War II. Shortly thereafter, with the outbreak of interest in flying saucer’s sparked by the Kenneth Arnold sighting in 1947, Guieu became a UFOlogist, dedicating “practically all of his adult life to the proof of UFOs . . . and to the education of the public about them” in Lyau’s words.
Over the course of his career, Guieu wrote a number of books under many pseudonyms—Claude Vauzière, Jimmy G. Quint, Claude Rostaing, Dominique Verseau—and most famously Jimmy Guieu. His first was the science fiction novel “Le Pionnier de l’Atome" in 1952. There followed well over 100 novels, most of them science fiction, but also detective novels and erotic stories. In 1954, he published his first non-fiction book on flying saucers, “Les Soucoupes Volantes Viennent d’un Autre Monde.” He started a UFO journal, “Ouranos” and reported a series for “Radio Monte Carlo” called “As-Tu Vu Les Soucoupes?” as well as a working on a television program. According to Lyau, Guieu was the most recognized of France’s science fiction writers, earning an imprint under his own name in 1979, which published revised versions of his early stories.
Henri-René Guieu was born 19 March 1926 in Aix en Provence, France, another of the late generation of Forteans. I do not know much about his early life, but there is some evidence he developed an interest in reading and the esoteric at a young age. According to Bradford Lyau’s essential “The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction,” he joined the French Resistance during World War II. Shortly thereafter, with the outbreak of interest in flying saucer’s sparked by the Kenneth Arnold sighting in 1947, Guieu became a UFOlogist, dedicating “practically all of his adult life to the proof of UFOs . . . and to the education of the public about them” in Lyau’s words.
Over the course of his career, Guieu wrote a number of books under many pseudonyms—Claude Vauzière, Jimmy G. Quint, Claude Rostaing, Dominique Verseau—and most famously Jimmy Guieu. His first was the science fiction novel “Le Pionnier de l’Atome" in 1952. There followed well over 100 novels, most of them science fiction, but also detective novels and erotic stories. In 1954, he published his first non-fiction book on flying saucers, “Les Soucoupes Volantes Viennent d’un Autre Monde.” He started a UFO journal, “Ouranos” and reported a series for “Radio Monte Carlo” called “As-Tu Vu Les Soucoupes?” as well as a working on a television program. According to Lyau, Guieu was the most recognized of France’s science fiction writers, earning an imprint under his own name in 1979, which published revised versions of his early stories.