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Le poids du ciel

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

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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Aeral and the limits of refuge

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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.

Aeral’s gold and amber medallion depicting balloon-supported cities among the clouds. — World illustration · Le poids du ciel

Lio Ardan

When a distressed city emerges from the clouds, the emergency upsets every calculation. Among those needing rescue, Lio finds Idris, the man he left. Their past returns as reserves and structures begin to fail.

Build a refuge that can hold

Welcoming refugees requires resources and agreements. Yet commitments made in Aeral’s skies reach the sleepers on Iskar. Who will bear the cost of rescue, and what is a refuge worth if it depends on sacrificing unseen people?

Survival and reunion

Le poids du ciel brings together survival, the reception of refugees and reunited lovers in Orme’s aerial cities. The fourth volume of L’Année des 5 Mondes follows lives suspended from choices that connect the planets.

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

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THE PLEASURE OF READING

Your journey through Aeral

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

Survival and reunion on Aeral

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.

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How can you offer refuge without making unseen people pay for its survival?

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