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Confessions d’un automate mangeur d’opium

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Author: Fabrice Colin

Fabrice Colin

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Paris, 1889. Un monde en transition, où les fiacres côtoient les tours vertigineuses des usines. Une ville brumeuse envahie par les aéroscaphes, d’étranges machines volantes qui quadrillent le ciel, et des nuées d’automates cuivrés… C’est dans cet univers révolutionné par l’éther, la substance verte aux propriétés miraculeuses, que la comédienne Margaret Saunders doit résoudre le mystère de la mort de sa meilleure amie, tombée d’un aérocar en plein vol. Sur la piste d’un créateur de robots dément, Margo, secondée par Théo, médecin dans un asile d’aliénés, va découvrir au péril de sa vie les dangers cachés de l’envoûtante vapeur.

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