Watchers of the Dark (The Jan Darken Trilogy)

Dr. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (April 17, 1923 - September 12, 2002), was a musician, author, and internationally known oral historian... Both Dr. Biggle's science fiction and mystery stories have received international acclaim. He was celebrated in science fiction circles as the author who introduced aesthetics into a literature known for its scientific and technological complications. His stories frequently used musical and artistic themes. Such notables as songwriter Jimmy Webb and novelist Orson Scott Card have written of the tremendous effect that his early story, The Tunesmith, had on them in their youth. Among Biggle's enduring science fiction creations were the Interplanetary Relations Bureau and the Cultural Survey, both featured in novels and magazine stories.