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COMING SOON · SCIENCE FICTION

Le procès des dormants

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L’Année des 5 Mondes · Volume 5

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

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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ENTER THE STORY

Iskar and the voice of the sleepers

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.

World illustration · Le procès des dormants
Ideas connecting
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Mara Senn

Ave, his digital copy, can represent him. But Ave now has its own history, interests and choices. When a petition seems to express the sleeper’s wishes, Mara must establish who is speaking and what that voice can authorize.

02

Let the absent be heard

Evidence arrives from Nacre, Veyre, Sylve and Aeral. The case can no longer be contained inside a single sleeping chamber. The trial could restore a voice to the absent, or entrench other people’s power to decide for them.

03

Legal thriller

Le procès des dormants is a science fiction legal thriller about digital identity and the right to a future. The fifth volume of L’Année des 5 Mondes tests the commitments and consequences arriving from the other four planets.

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

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THE PLEASURE OF READING

Your journey through Iskar

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

Legal thriller on Iskar

Le procès des dormants is a science fiction legal thriller about digital identity and the right to a future. The fifth volume of L’Année des 5 Mondes tests the commitments and consequences arriving from the other four planets.

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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