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My translation of Jean Pleyer's sci-fi graphic novel The Children of Light is coming out on August 18th, and is currently available for pre-order!
It's a very weird (complementary) book with truly gorgeous illustrations and an incredible backstory, and I hope you'll consider ordering it from your bookstore, comic shop, or library of choice.
A brief plot teaser: "In the far reaches of the Andromeda Galaxy, a supernova obliterates the homeworld of the Zors, an advanced alien race. But the Zors knew this particular apocalypse was coming. To escape destruction, they built a world-sized spaceship run by an omniscient supercomputer. They search for a new home, but the odds are bleak. Aboard the ship, major unrest amongst the crew and passengers endangers the mission."
It's also been getting very good reviews:
The Library Journal (in a starred review) says it's "a gorgeously illustrated, thrilling and thought-provoking episodic epic sci-fi odyssey unlike anything else in contemporary comics."
The Observer UK calls it "a blazingly colourful work of madcap, intergalactic sci-fi" and describes one image from the book as "surely one of the greatest spectacles in comics."
From Bookmunch: "Recalling nothing quite so much as Jack Kirby at his most grandiose, Children of Light zings between radical strangeness… and elevated cosmic wonders… if intense sci-fi is your bag, we guarantee you will have a thunderously good time with this"
The Irish Times picked it as one of the best graphic novels of 2026 (so far) and calls out "the sheer energy of Pleyers’s art and his glorious unselfconsciousness as a storyteller."
Finally, the Financial Times says the translation is "expertly done by Luke Burns, especially given the amount of intergalactic jargon." (I particularly appreciate this one, because, yes, that was all really hard.)
Like I said, I hope you'll pick it up from your book/comic purveyor of choice!
(P.S. You can also still pick up my previous translation, the absurd comedy Masters of the Nefarious, if you want to binge all my translation work.)
