One feels throughout that the author manages her plot-line well, thus providing us with many twists and turns to keep us on our toes and retain our interest right to the end. So the conclusion is gradually defined, and with it comes the answers to the many questions that had arisen in my mind. I really must admit that the author answers them efficiently but sometimes in an unexpected way. I was a little afraid that the cycle would take the easy way out with a classic combat between  Ioun-Ké-Da and the Dark God, but Laurence Suhner has succeeded in introducing a surprise element by widening the point of view and providing something more 'complete' and more thought out. Because, yes,...

The story continues in its usual excellent way. In short, lots of action, but also a good deal of contemplation on human and interspecies relationships. The author hasn’t chosen an easy path. Les lectures de Mariejuliet   If Vestiges seemed a bit slow to get going, L'Ouvreur des chemins immediately gets the reader straight into the action. We are right in the middle of a disaster scenario with special effects on a planetary scale. Everything and everybody is flung into a maelstrom that will change them forever. There is upheaval after upheaval and, together with various setbacks and changes in situations, they have the effect of intensifying human and extra-human passions. Even...

The first volume of Quantika took place on an inhospitable "snowball" planet where scientists and soldiers were in conflict over mysterious alien artefacts, including an impressive space ship in orbit. As much in the realm of fantasy as science fiction, this successful mix of genres won the Bob Morane prize and the Futuriales Prize in 2013. In the same ambiance the sequel takes up the story again, but this time more profoundly exploring aspects already raised in Vestiges. And there is also a threat that gets us wondering: where it actually comes from, who the Constructors really are and whether they are its true creators. But one of the really striking ideas in this book is the way in which...

Mixing human drama and supernatural dangers in a cosmic environment, Vestiges is an exciting novel and the first of a trilogy which should be fascinating, as it skilfully plays with the rules of science fiction and fantasy. For her first novel Laurence Suhner strikes hard and again confirms the quality of L'Atalante's catalogue. Note : 9 /10 Steggtegg, Psychovision   Vast political implications, galactic distances, frantic exoticism in the contact with other forms of intelligence, an unexplored virgin world, complex characters, it all adds up to novels that are exceptional in their genre. Without doubt, this book will be shortlisted for every prize at the beginning of the literary year,...

Orbiting around Gemma, an icebound world colonised for more than a century for its mineral resources, humankind has found the first extraterrestrial artefact: an inert and impenetrable space ship. Under the pretext of a mining expedition, Ambre Pasquier is leading a mission on the planet to search for the remains of the ancient civilisation, discovered through observation in space, but whose exact location was revealed to Ambre in a dream. The secret of this exploration doesn't seem very well-kept: Haziel Delaurier, a member of an independent laboratory of researchers, infiltrates the group to show Ambre a physical phenomenon of a dangerously abnormal passing of time whose origin is situated...