Career
From 1957-1962, he published a critical fanzine, Ailleurs. He published four science fiction novels between 1951 and 1971, including En avant, Mars, Les etoiles ne s"en foutent pas, Leprofesseur, and Les transhumains. In 1975, he founded the Maison d"Ailleurs, a museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journey in Yverdon-les-Bains, (Switzerland).
During World World War II, Versins was incarcerated in Auschwitz.