Social Fiction

By Chantal Montellier

Appearing together in English for the first time, three politically charged sci-fi graphic novellas by a pioneering French comics artist.

Dark, smart, and indomitably cool, the '70s and '80s dystopian visions of Chantal Montellier still unsettle.

Visitors to an underground mall must recreate civilization after a nuclear strike may have wiped out the rest of humanity. Newlyweds find themselves implicated in a government eugenics program. A disembodied authority reprimands a man for stepping out of view of a security camera.

In this collection of three novellas--Wonder City, Shelter, and 1996--published together in English for the first time, Montellier's blend of dark humor, gripping storytelling, and consistent focus on the perils of totalitarianism shows her to be a master of both comics and science fiction.

Social Fiction includes a Q&A between Chantal Montellier and Geoffrey Brock.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681377403
• ISBN13: 9781681377407
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: New York Review Comics
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.2"