Niourk

Niourk (published 1957) is a science fiction novel by the French writer Stefan Wul. It first appeared as one of the Fleuve Noir "Anticipation" novels, a series published in France from 1951 to 1960 which reflected the authors' attitudes towards the supposed post war rise of a "technocracy" in the countryhttp://www.depauw.edu/sfs/abstracts/a49.htm.

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It presents an Earth where the oceans have gone dry and humans are hunter-gatherer bands.

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Haiti is the mountain range "Hait", and New York City becomes the ruins of "Niourk".

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The "black child" goes to Niourk where he wanders through the ruins and the still functioning automatic devices.

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He finds a pair of shipwrecked humans from a space-bound branch of mankind.

1957: 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar....

Science fiction: Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. In common with most fiction, science fiction is written mainly to entertain people. The borders of this genre are not well defined, and the...

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