The Future City

( French - La Cité Future - 1890 )

novel by Alain Le Drimeur

translated by Brian Stableford

Black Coat Press - trade paperback - 2012 ( French Science Fiction 82 )
ISBN: 1612271146 / 9781612271149

Black Coat Press - Nook - 2012
BN ID: 2940015782905

Black Coat Press - Kindle - 2012
ASIN B00ADOLB4C


synopsis
This novel postulates that the Conservatives left France in 1891 to emigrate en masse to the island of La Réunion, where they established a Roman Catholic kingdom that deliberately cut itself off from the homeland for a century. The book begins in the early years of the 21st century when two young men from the island decide to discover what happened to France since it was abandoned to secularist Republicans. The result is not a straightforward future projection so much as a kind of anticipatory alternative history.

awards
....