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COMING SOON · SCIENCE FICTION

La ville au bord du jour

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L’Année des 5 Mondes · Volume 2

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

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.

Coming soon · Book in French

ENTER THE STORY

Veyre and the cost of stopping

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.

World illustration · La ville au bord du jour
A spark of adventure
01

Daria Venn

Daria Venn recognizes one of her own parts in the mechanism. As anger spreads through the workshops, she investigates the failure and her colleagues’ silence. Her daughter’s story draws her beyond the rails.

02

Defend a city that must keep moving

Convoys carry more than goods. A delayed shipment can deprive a patient on another planet of something vital. To protect her own people, Daria must reckon with the price paid by people she will never meet.

03

Social and family tension

La ville au bord du jour combines social tension, investigation and family ties in a moving city. The second volume of L’Année des 5 Mondes follows a local struggle whose consequences reach the entire Orme system.

Promotional artwork for the five fictional worlds; not an interior book page.

THE ORME SYSTEM · YEAR 641

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.

FIVE CONNECTED STORIES

L’Année des 5 Mondes

Explore the five worlds and reading order →

THE PLEASURE OF READING

Your journey through Veyre

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.

CONTINUE THE DISCOVERY

Social and family tension on Veyre

La ville au bord du jour combines social tension, investigation and family ties in a moving city. The second volume of L’Année des 5 Mondes follows a local struggle whose consequences reach the entire Orme system.

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.

BEFORE OPENING THE BOOK

Your questions.

Is this book available?

This French novel is forthcoming. Its release date and Amazon link will be added when publication is confirmed.

Should the five books be read in order?

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.

Do the stories happen in the same year?

Yes. All five novels take place in year 641, on different planets in the Orme system. They show different consequences of connected events.

Is an English edition announced?

The book is currently announced in French. This page is an English presentation; no English edition or release date has been announced.

YOUR NEXT BOOK

How far can you protect your own when someone elsewhere pays for their survival?

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