Stalner, Eric - 1 Original colour drawing - La Zone - 2025

Since 2019, 95% of the British population has vanished... In 2067, in a village in England, Lawrence is the only one to have crossed the borders of the territory, the only one still to embrace the knowledge of the past. He is feared and criticized by the villagers, for whom the disappearance of the old world is due to men’s pride and their contempt for God... Despite this, Lawrence has a pupil, the young Keira, to whom he tries to teach reading and writing. When she disappears with two of her friends, after having stolen one of the last maps of the country, Lawrence feels responsible. He has no choice left: he will have to come out of retirement and set off to save them, to face what he no longer wanted to relive in this devastated world. For his grand solo return, Éric Stalner gives us a four-volume SF speculative fable, and raises with it burning questions of today about the destiny of humanity.