Akutézoïde

In a distant future, Earth welcomes and profits from peoples arriving from other galaxies. Jérémy and Gabriel have adopted a young Akutezoid without fully understanding the child’s psychic abilities—abilities that allow communication through thought alone. Within this group, those whose telepathic powers are stunted find themselves permanently cast out. Orace is one of them. Consumed by rage and violence, he becomes a figure of fear. Yet it is this sociopathic outcast who will uncover the true reasons behind the sudden repatriation of the Akutezoids to their home planet.

Dark and brutal, Akutezoid explores the notion of collective intelligence and its perversion for purposes of control. What remains of free will and identity in a society where every individual is connected from an early age to a shared network of thought? How can intellectual and moral integrity be preserved within a system built on ultra-communication?

With this first book, Ludovic Lalliat delivers a space epic worthy of the great critical science fiction tales of the 1970s. The space opera becomes a framework for satirizing Western societies, quick to champion the ideals of democracy while masking the inequalities that sustain them and fueling an absurd pursuit of profit. A belligerent meteor obliterating the wild promises of tech gurus, Akutezoid is a dazzling breakthrough—an uncompromising punch to the gut.