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Les Cités obscures Series

12 primary works • 12 total works
Les Cités obscures (literally The Obscure Cities, but published in English as Cities of the Fantastic) is a graphic novel series set on a Counter-Earth, started by the Belgian comics artist François Schuiten and his friend, writer Benoît Peeters in the early 1980s. In this fictional world, humans live in independent city-states, each of which has d…

Book 1

Les murailles de Samaris
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3.94 · 1080 Ratings · 97 Reviews · published 1983 · 26 editions
Que se passe-t-il au juste à Samaris ? C’est pour …

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    Book 2

    Fever in Urbicand
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    4.13     · 853 Ratings · 72 Reviews · published 1984 · 30 editions
    Eugen Robick designs the perfect city until a fore…

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    Book 3

    La Tour
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    4.15     · 653 Ratings · 51 Reviews · published 1987 · 19 editions
    Solitaire dans un titanesque édifice qui ne semble…

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    Book 4

    La route d'Armilia
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    3.51     · 238 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 1987 · 12 editions
    French

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    Book 5

    Brüsel
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    3.75     · 599 Ratings · 48 Reviews · published 1992 · 23 editions
    Mr. Abeels runs a flower shop about to enter imagi…

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    Book 6

    The Leaning Girl
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    3.95     · 673 Ratings · 86 Reviews · published 1996 · 25 editions
    After a freak accident on the Star Express roller …

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    Book 7

    L'Ombre d'un homme
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    3.89     · 345 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 1999 · 16 editions
    Dans la belle et élégante cité de Brentano, l’agen…

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    Book 8

    The Invisible Frontier, Volume 1
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    3.84     · 353 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 2002 · 14 editions
    Shortly after arriving in the Center for Cartograp…

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    Book 9

    The Invisible Frontier, Volume 2
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    3.67     · 168 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2004 · 6 editions
    Roland, who has gone up the ranks quickly at the C…

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    Book 10

    La théorie du grain de sable, tome #1
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    0.00     · 1 edition

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    Book 11

    La théorie du grain de sable, tome #2
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    4.14     · 93 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2008 · 4 editions
    Le deuxième tome de LA THÉORIE DU GRAIN DE SABLE d…

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    Book 12

    Le retour du Capitaine Nemo
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    3.81     · 156 Ratings · 26 Reviews · published 2023 · 7 editions
    Un être hybride émerge des eaux. À la fois créatur…

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