Uchronie(s) New Moscow #1

Three figures stand against a brooding crimson skyline where Orthodox onion domes and modernist towers loom together — a striking alternate-history tableau that sets the tone for Corbeyran's Uchronie(s) series. At the center, a composed young woman in a dark coat and beret clutches a small red book, flanked by two weathered men, the whole scene rendered in Richard Guérineau's moody, rust-toned cover art. This 2013 opener from Daedalus promises a world where Moscow's shadow falls somewhere it perhaps shouldn't, and that tension is palpable from the very first page.