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Will mankind have a third chance?
César Séfria’s fate is sealed. A deadly virus escapes his lab and threatens to kill what is left of humanity after the Deep Blue, a global environmental catastrophe. The antidote is nowhere near to be found while the death toll rises. With nothing more to loose, he will read a manuscript that relates events of the apocalypse and follows four fates, surprising duos, who will fight to save the Earth from the impossible Flood and her suffocation.
For his first novel, Adrien Mangold explores the fates of a scientist, a soldier and a young girl who will write History, when a mistake becomes a pandemic, a lust a war, and the apocalypse a Second Mankind.
Science-fiction
Multiple POV
Virus
Environmental catastrophe
Adventures
Sortie : Autumn 2018
Format : 14x21cm
What better escape than the one of which we are the author? From that observation Adrien Mangold got his challenge: take with him as many prisoners of reality as possible, with a special care for the best confined. His cover? Engineer in a science museum so great that it is called La Cité des Sciences.
César Séfria
First character
He is a biologist who will stand with his best friend to protect him after the propagation of the virus. He will do everything to save the Octavians, the infected citizens, from the looming genocide.
Actor type: Ewan McGregor
Samuel Nerion
César’s friend and partner, he is the one responsible for the release of the virus. Thanks to César’s protection, no one is after him and he will be able to find a cure.
During the Deep Blue (100 years before)
Matis Harlong / The Selenite
Former soldier for the Federation, he is betrayed by is side and deserts. In order to negotiate the liberation of his parents taken hostage, he accepts one last mission for the Alliance.
He meets Pino after the crash of his plane.
Actor type: Daniel Craig
Lazarò Marlon / The Archivist
Soldier for the Alliance, is former role as archivist in Mexico puts him first in the resolution of the conflict and the issue of the oxygen. A bit coward, he will have to go beyond himself to fulfill his mission.
Actor type: Elijah Wood
vovin
Inspector in charge de of César, he will feel concerned by his fate and the struggle of the infected. He will be a big help to César.
Actor type: Mark Williams
PAULINE
Samuel’s wife and friend of César, she will help as she can and sacrifice everything.
LUCIE
César’s wife, victim of Octavia.
PINO / Three-lungs
Young girl of seven, war victim and involved in it despite her will. She is suspected to have telepathic powers. She is Matis partner.
Actress type: Bella Ramsey
Miss Sarah / the Panther
Mercenary of the dreaded order of the Misses, she is at the beginning of the story Matis lover and will become Lazàro mission partner, ensuring his safety.
Actress type: Emily Blunt
Logosm, megalopolis that shelters the few millions survivors of the apocalypse, offers me today the perfect day. I, César Séfria, get to spend time out of my lab and finally say yes to the most beautiful bride who ever existed. Later that day, Samuel Nerion, friend and partner, introduces me to his godson. The honey moon is perfect until Samuel calls to announce me the death of his godson, infected by the virus we were studying.
Named after its first victim, Octavia spreads fast as lightning upon Logosm. On my way to find Samuel, the authorities arrest me. I am accountable for the lab as well as, of course, for the deadly epidemic.
The son of one of the inspectors watching me dies of Octavia. Like most of the population now, he considers me as a murderer. Mad with grief he comes to kill me and I have to fake suicide to escape death. What an irony. My lab has been destroyed but is sealed and becomes my safe place to hide. Useless and broken by my wife’s death, I have nothing better to do than read a manuscript offered anonymously on my wedding day…
[A hundred years ago, mankind tried to fight the apocalypse: the rising of the oceans to the highest mountain peaks. Night lasted all day long because of the clouds of pollution and a war for the control of the oxygen factories was raging. Matis Harlong, former military, was forced to go back for a last mission. On his way, he stumbled upon a young girl, Pino, last survivor after the destruction of her underwater village. He took her under his protection and went to the battlefield while another duo left it. Lazàro Malorn, former archivist, partnered with Sarah, mercenary risen by the order of the Miss founded in the deepest abyss. They had to find a plant able to enhance the efficiency of the oxygen factories.
Pino was helped by a mysterious gift and Matis used his network to survive the battlefield. Lazàro and Sarah went to reconverted under water Mexico to search the sewage network, where the archives stood. A terrorist attack was planned by the opposite forces that won them the war. All of four of them succeeded their mission but too late. The tyrant who won the war forced everyone to leave the ocean to go rebuilt the Second Mankind on earth. Those who refused were decimated by a biological weapon: Octavia.]
… and learns that a few have escaped the virus and went into hiding at the bottom of the ocean, developing under radar.
In a few days, Octavians, untreatable, become the target of a genocide. As for me, I have to escape the lab from extremists. I try to meet with Samuel only to find his dead body. He sacrificed himself to create a blocking agent allowing the infected to survive.
Pino, now a hundred years old, is the one who wrote the manuscript. She convinces me to shepherd the infected and set sail. Our fleet is destroyed but we are saved underwater by women mercenaries. The order of the Miss came to save the Octavians.
The Deep Blue
The Earth sees her biggest cataclysm since the extinction of dinosaurs: The Deep Blue, a fast and unexplained rising of the waters, forming one unique ocean that leaves only the tallest peaks dry.
Clouds of pollutions accumulated until they created a shell around the Earth, forbidding sunshine through and leaving mankind in a permanent night.
The oxygen became money and people have adapted to leave in underwater cities.
In this context, two conglomerates of states (the Federation and the Alliance) fight to win control of factories able to renew the air (the Massive Depollution Factories) and give mankind a chance to survive.
The underwater cities
There are two types: the ones built from open-air cities like Mexico, who prepared for the immersion and adapt their urbanism. The sewage system being used as archives and huge beacon creating the illusion of daylight.
And the ones built from scratch in the deepest waters, from which a few things are know.
The Glacier of Redemption and the MDFs.
This is Greenland, the only part of the world not concerned of the Deep Blue. The world took advantage to built a gigantic wall, kilometres high, in order to protect the MDF erected there.
It the battlefield of the Alliance and the Federation.
The MDFs are high towers which go directly into the shell of clouds in order to siphon the air and recycle it.
Logosm
A hundred years later, Mankind took back the Earth. Logosm is where Australia was and is the second megalopolis of the project to build five to settle a new civilisation. It shelters knowledge and technology. Part of the survivors leaves in its high towers.
People travel with capsules sliding on a high speed monorail, itself built on top of towers.
At that time, water level is back to normal thanks to the MDF, but the Second Mankind still erects walls to its borders in anticipation of a new Deep Blue.
Octavia
Virus which propagation is by touch.
Victims dies after a couple of days from rapid tissue necrosis which began by the feet.
The rose is found to be a blocking agent, combined with Samuel Nerion genes, a real inhibitor will be find.
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