Description
What if man journeyed into space in 1869, not 1969?
In search of the mysterious element known as aether, Claire Dulac flew her hot-air balloon toward the edge of our stratosphereand never returned. One year after her disappearance, her son and husband are delivered a tantalizing clue: a letter from an unknown sender who claims to have Claires lost logbook. The letter summons them to a Bavarian castle, where an ambitious young king dreams of flying the skies in a ship powered by aether. But within the castle walls, danger lurksthere are those who would stop at nothing to conquer the stars.
Author Information
Alex Alice is a French graphic novelist whose works have been translated into more than fifteen languages. His comics in English include the esoteric thriller The Third Testament and the operatic fantasy Siegfried. In Castle in the Stars, he draws on Jules Verne and nineteenth-century romanticism to create a watercolour world of adventure and wonder.
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