Niourk (published 1957) is a science fictionnovel by the French writer Stefan Wul[?]. It first appeared as one of the Fleuve Noir[?] "Anticipation" novels, a series published in France from 1951 to 1960 which reflected the authors' attitudes towards the supposed post-war rise of a "technocracy" in the country[1] (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/abstracts/a49.htm).