Our team is finalizing the proofreading pass on the layout, it's a big endeavour so we had to take a little more time: PDF will be sent to you this summer, we're very sorry for that :) Of course, everything will be sent to the printer at the end of this month so things are progressing nicely, we're still aiming for autumn 2026 to send you the printed books.
In the meantime, here's an extract about Paris, post-Collapse. Hum, and I want to give you some details about the metro and how the climate change would transform Paris forever.
An extract of the Universe book
"I remember a railway line that ran along Seine. Underground. Ha ha. How crazy, when you think about it. Every year, it was closed in order to reinforce and fix up the enormous walls between the railway tunnel and the river’s bed. Oh, the water infiltration was never that bad, but still, every year, over a month, “Castor” maintenance was performed on the line.
Yup, they had to do it every year. You think they kept at it past the Great Night of 2028? It was already not so spick-and-span in the first place… I don’t know if that’s how it started going downhill, but it didn’t help for sure. Imagine an entire river pouring down into a subterranean railway and subway network. More than twenty lines, interconnected with hallways to allow passengers from one to the other.
In the early 2000s, Paris’s underground had already turned into a giant Swiss cheese that architects had a tough time with, so you can imagine how it went after that… Stations millions of people used to go in and out of on a daily basis, completely flooded. By the way, the flow of Seine used to be a hundred thousand liters every second. And if that wasn’t enough, there’s been a “slight” increase in the sea level over the last few years.
Do you know why Seine used to be so famously snaking? Because it was already at sea level. Not enough elevation difference to flow straight. So when the waves came in, yep, they went all the way from Rouen to Paris. And so, getting back to my previous subject, a few million or billion liters of water filled the whole underground network: metro, RER, catacombs, mushroom beds, abandoned quarries, and who knows what else. With so much weight pressing down, no way that was all going to hold."
And now, the updated production planning:
🚧 PDFs finalized – Proofreading will be completed this month and the PDFs will be sent this summer!
⌛️ Pledge manager – Scheduled for Summer 2026.
⌛️ Printing & production – Scheduled for Summer 2026.
🚢 Ocean freight – Scheduled for Autumn 2026.
🔮 Shipping to backers – Late Autumn 2026.
And if you want to visit Paris one day, try to do it before the rats and the floods ;)
