L'Orphelin de Perdide
| Author | Stefan Wul | 
|---|---|
| Original title | L'Orphelin de Perdide | 
| Illustrator | René Brantonne | 
| Series | Anticipation | 
| Genre | Novel  science fiction  | 
| Publisher | Fleuve Noir | 
Publication date  | 1958 | 
| Publication place | France | 
| Media type | paper | 
| Pages | 186 | 
L'Orphelin de Perdide (The Orphan of Perdide) is a French science fiction novel by Stefan Wul, published in 1958, and the basis of the 1982 animated film Les Maîtres du temps. It was Wul's seventh to be published in the Fleuve Noir Anticipation collection of science fiction novels. It consists of three parts divided into sixteen chapters and was written by Wul in three weeks.