The Day Before Tomorrow by Gerard Klein. New York. 1972. DAW/New American Library. Translated from the French by P. J. Sokolowski.  A DAW Books Original. 128 pages. paperback. UQ1011. Cover painting by Josh Kirby.

DESCRIPTION - The federation considered itself a technological Utopia-and the innumerable planets under its sway were guaranteed stability by virtue of the time-change teams. For whenever a planetary historian located evidence in the past of any newly found world that it might evolve into a possible menace, a team of seven would be sent to tamper with that world's history.But the seven men that went to Ygone encountered a fate no theorist had projected. They met with immediate ambush, they met with a strangely peaceful culture that could not be fathomed, and they finally were confronted with all the contradictions and temporal knots that the whole system of time-change had to imply.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - Gérard Klein (born 1937), known also as Gilles , is a French science fiction writer with sociological entrenamiento. He is the editor of the prestigious science fiction series Ailleurs et Demain published by Robert Laffont and of the Le Livre de Poche science-fiction imprint.In his novella Les virus ne parlent pas ("The viruses do not speak"), he imagines that viruses have created all living beings in the same fashion that human beings have created computers, and for the same reason: to improve eir efficiency. Gérard Klein used the pseudonym "Gilles d'Argyre" for his novels published by Editions Fleuve Noir for their series Anticipation. Several of his novels were published in translation by DAW Books in the United States.

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