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Title Un monde nouveau
Author Sylvain Runberg
Ilustrator Grun
Publisher Editions Daniel Maghen - 2017
First Printing Editions Daniel Maghen - 2017
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Title Les Solitaires
Author Sylvain Runberg
Ilustrator Grun
Publisher Editions Daniel Maghen - 2019
First Printing Editions Daniel Maghen - 2019
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Title Ceux qui restent
Author Sylvain Runberg
Ilustrator Grun
Publisher Editions Daniel Maghen - 2021
First Printing Editions Daniel Maghen - 2021
Category Science Fiction
Warnings None
Main Characters Jasmine Stenford, Ulfrid
Main Elements Mars
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The Mars colony is being built on the backs of prisonners sent there as a penal colony, and Jasmine, a cop who accidentally kills some important somebody's daughter during a raid, is sent to spend twenty years there. But the colony has it's own complex societies. There are of course the prisoners and the colonists. But there are also gangs, religious cults, and those living out on the mountains that just want to live free and equal to everyone else. As all these groups collide Earth is forced to decide if a colony based on slave labour is one that is able to survive.

This trilogy is pretty dark and depressing, a lot of people who've suffered in various ways, or people who are just career criminals...or just plain insane. But one can see how this could come about too, after all it will cost a lot of money to build a real colony on Mars, and it's going to be very dangerous work, who is going to want to do it? But is the end result worth it? Can a utopia be created by a the opposite?

There's a lot of violence of course, and I had a great deal of difficultly of telling people apart, especially the men that all seemed to tend towards similar builds, hair styles/colour, so this isn't going to be up there with my favorite graphic novels but on the whole wasn't bad.




Posted: November 2022

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