Outline
In Uncertain Times opens with apparently unconnected events in the four corners of the universe. While joining together the threads of this intrigue, Valérian and Laureline will begin to reach an answer to the questions they have raised since the disappearance of Earth of the future – that of Galaxity and the Spatio-Temporal Service to which the belonged.
But can one trust a character as disturbing as Sat, come from the Hell of Point Central to our world to set himself up today in business? Can one grant credit to the businessmen of the multinational Vivaxis, unaware of the risks their actions run to mankind? Can one have faith in a Holy Trinity descended from Hypsis to defend its right of ownership?
A meeting in Paris, as violent as amusing, will in any case prove the properly diabolic nature of modern capitalism. And that's nothing...
(translated from the back cover blurb to the French edition)
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