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Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet''s future and its past. The 17th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years!

Originally published as: Valerian. Brooklyn station terminus cosmos. Paris: Dargaud, c1981.

Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin created "Valerian" in 1967. While "Valerian" is Mézières'' only comic series, he''s worked as an illustrator in many other areas, including designs and sets for "The Fifth Element," and he was awarded the Grand Prix du festival d''Angoulême in 1984. Christin also works in collaboration with other artists such as Tardi and Bilal and writes novels and film scripts.

This time, it''s an official hero''s job for Valerian! Every 100 years or so, the infertile people of Simlanne send their champions to the sacred island of Filene, where the best among them, chosen via a series of tests, will find and bring back the next generation. This cycle, though, the local heroes seem to fail repeatedly, and the aging Simlannians have sent for heroes from other worlds. Valerian, chosen to represent Earth, will have to overcome the tests and his competitors in a dangerous odyssey...

The head of Galaxity’s Spatio-Temporal Service himself has joined Valerian and Laureline at Inverloch Castle. There, among various human and alien allies, he explains to them the threat that looms over Earth: all of the recent incidents, all those important people gone mad and threatening to bring about the apocalypse... All of that is due to the malicious influence of the mysterious planet Hypsis. But Hypsis is a world that moves from system to system – it’ll need to be pinpointed first...

Valerian, shot to death in an Indian fortress. Valerian, dead in 19th century London. Valerian, gunned down in San Francisco''s Chinatown - And Laureline, paired up with an unpleasantly arrogant historian from Galaxity, forced to witness every demise of the man she loves on a succession of re-enacted pieces of human history. A very strange case that will take the two spatio-temporal agents to the limits of their endurance as they hunt down the mysterious architect of the false Earths.

Broke, without a job, their ship almost a scrap heap, Valerian and Laureline are stuck on Rubanis, unable to pay for repairs. So when a trio of old acquaintances introduces them to the head of the local police, who is looking for independent agents for a risky - but well-paid - mission, they accept readily enough. But Rubanis is the most corrupt planet in the entire galaxy. How are they to find out who really holds the reins of power there?

When a rogue planet threatens a new human colony, Valerian and Laureline are sent to investigate. But the people who live under the surface of Zahir are unaware of their impending doom, distracted as they are by a senseless and bloody war. The two agents of Galaxity will have to infiltrate both sides and force a reconciliation.

The most terrifying birds since Alfred Hitchcock''s! Valerian and Laureline''s ship has crash-landed on an uncharted planetoid. The two castaways quickly discover a vast ship cemetery, leading them to believe that their arrival was not an accident. Before long, they make contact with a population whose sole purpose seems to be to gather and produce food for a mysterious "Master." The Terran agents aren''t going to be turned into slaves easily, but the Master enforces his will through his terrible agents: the Birds of Madness...

Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet''s future and its past. The 16th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years!

Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet''s future and its past. The 19th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years!

Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet s future and its past. The 13th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years!"

Unsolved cases come home to roost in Edith Hardy''s latest caper, rounding off the first trilogy of the detective''s adventures. When secret services in France and America start pulling strings—not to mention the machinations of a certain pharmaceutical industrialist—Edith winds up behind the Iron Curtain, in Moscow! But is she there to recover the legacy of state painter Alexis Limonovich... or save naive young chemist Antoine Dubreuil from being manipulated? Meanwhile, just what skullduggery is Edith''s enterprising assistant Victor up to with an art forger, a carnival performer, his bear, and a midnight break-in? One thing''s for sure: it all adds up to classy intrigue!

Ever calm, classy, and resourceful, Edith Hardy is on the case again. When pharmaceutical magnate Le Cauchois asks her to wangle an invitation to the Red Baroness''s exclusive gatherings of Soviet sympathizers, Edith isn''t sure she should say yes—until an invitation falls right in her lap. Next thing, she''s off to the Baroness''s château in the snowy Ardennes, where she runs smack dab into a triangle of intrigue. Le Cauchois is working for French intelligence, the Baroness with the Russians, and a handsome acquaintance for the CIA—a convenient fellow to have around when a lady lands herself in hot water!

Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet''s future and its past. The 18th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years!

Technorog is a planet essential to the economy of the Terran empire. For 200 years, it has been a centre of industry, research and agriculture. Suddenly, the indigenous population--believed long extinct--comes back to the planet they know as Alflolol. Earth''s laws are strict: They must be allowed back on their ancestral grounds. But when Valerian and Laureline are assigned to facilitate their "reinsertion," they see the difference between the letter of the law and its spirit...

This is the story of two women. One of those women is Lady Sheringham, interviewed in her manor house, the other is Emma Piggott, who has just passed away in her London apartment, alone. To the former, life has been kind. She''s gone from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpar, from governess to sultana. She lives in the lap of luxury, engaged in an endless cycle of drinks parties, outings on horseback and the delicious little scandals of the British colonial community. This is a woman destined never to know hardship, other than the loss of loved ones. Emma Piggott, a teacher at St. John''s, has lived a gray and stagnant life, experiencing Asia only through newspaper articles that she carefully cuts out collects, but never leaving the Whitechapel neighborhood where her parents kept a grocery store. And yet, something unites these two women--a little detail, nothing at all really, mere chance, or perhaps just a nightmare that troubles Lady Sheringham''s sleep from time to time...

Exploring Syrte, the capital planet of a system of one thousand worlds, agents Valerian and Laureline must decide whether this decaying empire poses any danger to Earth.

Galaxity''s orders are rather bizarre, lately. Laureline has been left on stand-by in a Scottish castle. Valerian, haunted by recurrent nightmares, has been sent to capture a sentient being as if it were a wild animal - an unsavoury task, to say the least. And on Earth in the 1980s, members of the military and political elites are descending into madness one by one. What future does our planet still have ... and who''s so bent on changing it?

Valerian and Laureline as seen by different writers and artists. A second volume of a spin-off series that prolongs and pays homage to a legendary saga!

Galaxity’s orders are rather bizarre, lately. Laureline has been left on stand-by in a Scottish castle. Valerian, haunted by recurrent nightmares, has been sent to capture a sentient being as if it were a wild animal – an unsavoury task, to say the least. And on Earth in the 1980s, members of the military and political elites are descending into madness one by one. What future does our planet still have ... and who’s so bent of changing it?

Orwell est passé à la postérité grâce à 1984, qu''il a écrit en 1948, et à son invention prophétique de Big Brother, préfigurant, il y a soixante-dix ans, le contrôle des médias, Internet et la manipulation des données personnelles. Mais sa vie fut tout aussi passionnante que ses livres : elle montre un homme toujours en avance sur son temps, étudiant à Eton et flic en Birmanie, combattant de la guerre d''Espagne, antistalinien et journaliste – ses enquêtes firent d''ailleurs grand bruit. Pierre Christin se plonge avec délectation dans cette vie hors norme.

The achievements of one man changed the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan''s Financial District to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of this controversial urban planner''s mind. In paperback for the first time, Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez''s comic book takes on the infamous "Power Broker" and unlocks the historical battles that created the modern metropolis.

Galaxity, capital of the Terran Empire in the 28th century. Valerian and Laureline are agents who protect mankind from rogue time travellers. Now they are sent to New York in 1986 to intercept Galaxity''s worst megalomaniac, Xombul-except that in 1986, the world is in ruins and New York is about to be swallowed by the ocean. The two agents must navigate the shifting waters of the past to make sure that the future will exist.

Galaxity, capital of the Terran Empire in the 28th century. Valerian and Laureline are agents who protect mankind from rogue time travellers. Now they are sent to New York in 1986 to intercept Galaxity’s worst megalomaniac, Xombul—except that in 1986, the world is in ruins and New York is about to be swallowed by the ocean. The two agents must navigate the shifting waters of the past to make sure that the future will exist.

Who is Lena? What is she up to? Does she even know her mission? Setting out from an East Berlin neighborhood that is home to former dignitaries, she goes about passing out small, innocent-seeming gifts from Budapest to Transylvania to Kiev. She crosses the Danube delta, the Black Sea, Anatolia, and the Aleppo bazaar. Each time, she crosses borders incognito, claiming to have nothing to declare. A journey at once timeless and inextricable from the great issues of our age, "Lena" combines the intimacy dear to André Juillard and Pierre Christin''s predilection for vast geopolitical canvases.

Valerian and Laureline, no longer members of any organisation, are down to doing space deliveries. With Galaxity gone and money getting scarce, their aging spaceship is becoming a hazard, which is pushing Valerian into accepting questionable cargo. After a somewhat rough landing, our two ex-agents, on their way to deliver their goods, meet some individuals with very surprising gifts who claim to be itinerant artists. But is that really all they are?

"Tandis que Valérian est à Paris dans les bras d''une créature de rêve, Laureline crapahute au fin fond du cosmos sur l''infecte planète Zomuk. Les deux jeunes agents spatio-temporels cherchent à comprendre la raison d''apparitions hautement anormales, sur Terre et ailleurs. Après Métro Châtelet direction Cassiopée, la suite d''un double album, clé de la série Valérian où s''affrontent les forces éternelles de l''espace-temps et les intérêts économiques les plus contemporains.

After a military device is mysteriously hidden in the farming town of Liternos, it is literally lifted from the ground and sent on an incredible journey across the countryside. This and other strange occurences pique the interest of an army that is having problems of their own.

Property developers are planning to build a large resort where Trehoet Castle stands; effectively destroying the small fishing village that surrounds it with commercialism. Soon the developers find out that the castle''s ghostly occupant and the residents of the village will stop at nothing to keep it from being demolished

A group of men commit the cold-blooded massacre of all the residents from a village deep in the Spanish countryside. This atrocious act is signed by The Black Order Brigade; a terrorist group made up of remnants of Franco''s former soldiers. An English journalist recognizes them as the enemies he fought during the Spanish Civil War, and decides to hook up with his old pals from the International Brigades to track down the assassins. This begins a long and deadly journey across Europe as this odd and unlikely commando follows the bloody trail of the vicious killers across Europe. A gripping thriller from the authors of The Hunting Party.