Outline
To what strange play do two sublime beings devote themselves on an intergalactic cruise ship? Who does Laureline await on some shore in Lapland? And what is Valérian doing in a Soviet atomic power station which seems to be suffering from the same problem as Chernobyl? What do they find concocted in a lazy oasis in Southern Tunisia?
Little by little, at the bottom of nuclear terrorism, of twisted plots and fantastic pursuits, it appears someone wants to push the Earth towards cataclysm to recreate the conditions that formed Galaxity, lost capital of Earth of the future.
But can one re-write history with impunity? A burning question that will haunt the two young spatio-temporal agents as they cross ever more mysterious borders...
(translated from the back cover blurb to the French edition)
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