Now that Earth seems to be lost, they have given the aquatic planet Sigma to human mercs who have established there a colony. This old arcturian race has gone through a succession of mutations and has developped its mental abilities to such an extent that it has become unfit to live other than in virtual reality. The arcturians are a decadent alien race who teached civilisation to the different human races who successively lived on earth and were plagued and destroyed one after the other by the same cosmic evil. Terran refugees have arrived in great numbers on Arcturus. Hell is killed while partaking in a ritualistic fight typical of that strange codified world. They manage to land on the old planet Hera in the Sagitarius system, inhabited by two races : the native Herans dominated by the sleepwalking Sohis. 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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