![]() ![]() Villys eventually escapes together with Quick, an android and Hell, a disturbed sailor acting as a gigolo to this mad matron. This cyberpunk spaceship is under the command of a monstrous female captain, who discards the passengers one by one and sends them floating in weightlessness around her ship in a state of semi unconscious corpses. Villys flees as a stowaway in a huge and rusty cargo ship manned by sadistic sailors and malfunctioning robots. The planet is seen as a living, self-regulating creature, a tortured macro-organism consciously manipulating its environment to ensure its survival.Īmong other mutants we follow the paths of Villys, a teenage girl able to project her mind in time and space to escape bullying. This new species seems to have been grown as a reaction against the plague by Earth itself. The novel takes us back and forth over several decades between the fates of different mutants becoming gradually aware of unforeseeable possibilities. ![]() ![]() ![]() The surviving humans flee an insane solar system by the millions and scatter across the galaxy. French science-fiction writer Nathalie Henneberg was well versed in the art of “world creation”, as evinced in her monumental space opera “la plaie” (“the plague”).Įarth is swept by a plague which turns people into zombies serving the designs of a malevolent cosmic entity. ![]()
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