![]() 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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