| Finally, a new title in the obscure and mysterious Cities of the Fantastic series (Great Walls of Samaris, Fever in Urbicand, The Tower). Mr. Abeels runs a flower shop about to enter modernity: imagine, through the miracle of plastics, flowers that never fade! His novelty is snatched up by the ambitious city planners of an all-new Brusel. No more lack of hygiene! No more dusty old buildings! All is razed and enormous new skyscrapers are erected at blistering speed!
Never mind the disruptions and uprootings of people’s lives! Who needs to preserve and live in history? Hurrah for modernity! Abeels falls in love with a renegade woman who fights the extensive redesigns and ends up having to play both sides carefully... Another retro-SF city in the large inter-connected firmament created by Schuiten & Peeters, full of classic European elements a la Jules Verne including amusingly idiosyncratic bureaucracies. This world has been so successful in Europe as to elicit a life-size roving exhibition recreating it, even metro stations in Paris and Brussels designed after it!
"Wondrously complex. A charming, retro sci-fi look at a city on the edge of the future. A warm tale full of likable characters and beautiful illustrations that will leave a distinct impression."
-Today's Librarian
NBM, hardback, 120 pages
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Writer: Benoît Peeters | Artist: François Schuiten | Publisher: NBM
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