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Five imagined worlds: a turquoise ocean, a copper desert, a green forest, cities in the clouds and violet ice.

SCIENCE FICTION · FIVE FRENCH NOVELS COMING SOON

L’Année des 5 Mondes

One year. Five planets. Decisions with distant consequences.

In the Orme system, a decision on one planet can change a life on another.

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ORME / 641 NACRE — VEYRE — SYLVE — AERAL — ISKAR

ENTER THE ORME SYSTEM

Choose your world.

An ocean, a moving city, a living forest, a refuge in the clouds, a world beneath the ice. Which story will draw you in?

Nacre’s gold medallion: a turquoise wave and a partly submerged city against an aged background.
Oceans and floating cities

Investigation and family secrets

Nacre

An empty burial chamber. A severed cable. A dead woman erased.

Ena Sorel is searching for someone a register can no longer locate. Among Nacre’s floating cities, her investigation moves between underwater remains and the secrets of those closest to her. A name can unlock aid, receive a payment or authorize a decision for another person. Ena’s discovery gives a face to people the other worlds know only through their files.

With Ena Sorel

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Veyre’s copper medallion showing a city on rails beside a red desert, against an aged background.
Rolling cities between heat and ice

Social and family tension

Veyre

To survive, the city must move. To understand what is happening, it must stop.

Veyre’s rails draw a boundary between two ways of dying. Between them, a city must keep living. Daria Venn faces a crisis that crosses her workshop and her family. Stopping can make resistance possible, but convoys that never leave create unanswered needs elsewhere. This story explores solidarity when those it protects and those it exposes live on different worlds.

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Sylve’s green and gold medallion: an immense tree, roots and dwellings in a forest.
Giant forests and living habitats

Biological and intimate mystery

Sylve

The forest repairs bodies. A child remembers something he has never lived.

On Sylve, living tissue becomes a remedy. But Noé’s words force Tessa Orin to examine what the treatments transmit alongside hoped-for healing. Between one particular child and patients scattered across several planets, no decision stays inside the laboratory. The forest opens an intimate inquiry into memory, without confusing the traces of a life with the person who lived it.

With Tessa Orin

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Aeral’s gold and amber medallion depicting balloon-supported cities among the clouds.
Cities suspended in the clouds

Survival and reunion

Aeral

Eleven kilos too many. A child seeking refuge. No ground beneath the city.

An admission rule, dwindling reserves, an overloaded platform: on Aeral, moral decisions carry physical weight. Lio Ardan tries to make refuge possible while Idris’s return reopens their shared history. Rescue becomes a fragile construction of relationships as much as structures. Every agreement holding it together can commit someone sleeping millions of kilometres away.

With Lio Ardan

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Iskar’s purple and gold medallion: sleepers in capsules beneath arches of ice.
Ice and sleeping chambers

Legal thriller

Iskar

Her client has slept for a century. His digital copy has its own reasons to live.

Mara Senn cannot question her client like any other witness. She must distinguish Avel Neri’s wishes from those of Ave, the copy that has continued living while he sleeps. Evidence from the other four worlds changes the hearing: behind one man’s fate emerges a way to govern the absent. Here the series’ connections become arguments, evidence and responsibilities to establish.

With Mara Senn

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THE SAME YEAR, DIFFERENT LIVES

What connects the five stories

A shipment held on Veyre is missed on another planet. Aid granted on Aeral commits lives on Iskar. An identity recovered on Nacre changes the meaning of a file elsewhere. The connections run through concrete actions, and no character knows all their consequences.

One question runs through this year: who can consent on behalf of those who are absent? Behind medical care, wages and rescues, commitments made for other people become pieces of a shared mystery.

Each novel follows its own characters and local conflict. Reading all five reveals other sides of the events. The suggested order, from Nacre to Iskar, gradually brings their connections into view.

SUGGESTED READING ORDER

Five novels. Five ways into the mystery.

Cover of Les noyés sans nom, by Nicolas Marty.

I · Nacre

Les noyés sans nom

On Nacre, cities float above the depths. Ena Sorel knows their dangers. But when she retrieves a burial chamber whose occupant has disappeared, the evidence looks nothing like an accident.

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Cover of La ville au bord du jour, by Nicolas Marty.

II · Veyre

La ville au bord du jour

On Veyre, cities roll between heat and freezing cold. Their inhabitants work, raise children and grow old in a world that cannot afford to stand still. Then Halte brakes without warning.

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Cover of Ce que la forêt garde, by Nicolas Marty.

III · Sylve

Ce que la forêt garde

Among Sylve’s immense trees, living organisms can heal human bodies. Tessa Orin knows their promise. She also knows that Noé, a sick child, cannot wait forever for answers.

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Cover of Le poids du ciel, by Nicolas Marty.

IV · Aeral

Le poids du ciel

On Aeral, cities float over an abyss of gas. Everything they carry counts. Lio Ardan controls admissions: a child’s weight can turn a safety rule into a life-or-death decision.

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Cover of Le procès des dormants, by Nicolas Marty.

V · Iskar

Le procès des dormants

Beneath Iskar’s ice, bodies await their awakening. Their debts keep growing. Mara Senn defends Avel Neri, whose awakening is refused while maintaining his body becomes too expensive.

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BEFORE YOUR JOURNEY

A few reading notes.

Can each novel be read on its own?

Each novel follows its own characters and local conflict. Reading all five reveals other sides of the events. The suggested order, from Nacre to Iskar, gradually brings their connections into view.

When will the books be released?

All five novels are forthcoming in French. Release dates and Amazon links will be added when confirmed. No translated edition has been announced.

Are these illustrations pages from the novels?

These are the series’ promotional illustrations and cover emblems. They evoke the fictional worlds and do not reproduce interior pages.