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The Nikopol Trilogy
(La trilogie Nikopol)
Cover of the English edition of the Nikopol TrilogyPublisher Les Humanoïdes Associés Creative team Writer(s) Enki Bilal Artist(s) Enki Bilal ISBN Translation Publisher Humanoids Publishing Date 1999 (English edition of the full trilogy) ISBN 978-0967240121 The Nikopol Trilogy comprises three science fiction graphic novels written in French by Bosnian born Enki Bilal between 1980 and 1993. The original French titles of the series are La Foire aux immortels, La Femme piège and Froid Équateur which were later translated in English and published by Humanoids Publishing under the titles Carnival of Immortals, Woman Trap and Cold Equator. In 1999, the trilogy was also published in a single album as The Nikopol Trilogy.
The central plot of the trilogy, set in 2023 Paris, follows Alcide Nikopol who returns from a 30 year sentence spent orbiting the earth under cryopreservation to find France under fascist rule following two nuclear wars.
The books have been adapted into a video game Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals by White Birds Productions and a movie called Immortal.
Categories:- Franco-Belgian comics stubs
- The Nikopol Trilogy
- French graphic novels
- Science fiction comics
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