Stéphane Wull, is one of the great writers whose works have enriched the French science fiction many classics.

Stéphane Wull, is one of the great writers whose works have enriched the French science fiction many classics.

Niourk (Paperback)

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This is among the French authors, GENEFORT Laurent, one of the great champions of dunivers creation.

Niourk no exception to this rule of absolute change of scenery, a very melancholy scenery here in terms of human adventure on earth.
Our species now living on planet earth transfigured, a kind of ominous twilight, while civilization has disappeared from our world, while men live in precarious ways of prehistoric societies.

In many respects, is a prehistoric Niourk fiction, but put in pos-apocalyptic context, in a devastated world where the oceans have largely disappeared, when many animals have mutated, there are large radioactive areas ....
Some of these animals seem endowed dailleurs dintelligence and threaten to dethrone humanity despèce its dominant position in this alien world now irretrievably gone to the past. A world thus passes very slowly, sandstone centuries, something else inevitably and sadly.

This is a well written text that is at the crossroads of children's literature and adult SF. It is accessible to both public without the shade of a doubt.
The text is marked dune certain naivety at times, for an adult reader, I mean.
This can be annoying but otherwise this is offset by a painting of the universe which is meticulously painted.
It is a novel where something happens, it moves ... without being a thriller so far, which is not displease me .. It changes indeed ...

But overall this text has the charm of a meaningful universe, a dune and well paced narrative. A good characterization too (really good) and some ability to install a very insidious melancholy and haunting, over the pages. These qualities make a reading which can therefore reach the adult reader.

This is an initiatory novel in which a young man roams a world that will persuade the contemporary reader, that it belongs to the past.
This is a walk in the wilderness, with the dangers and threats due to this, as also due to technological legacy of the past.

Finally there is also a contact with a survivor humanity, a company at the futuristic civilization, but who continues his adventures elsewhere, not on earth, there ...

You can love Niourk, we may not like Niourk, this is according ... but one thing is certain, this is a universe that displays great presence.
This is therefore a beautiful ballad science fiction, unquestionably those permanently leaving the reader with a persistent amount of images in the head.

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