It is the 23rd century. An impassable screen protects Occident from its neighbouring empires. Wang, a young seventeen-year-old Chinese boy, lives with his grandmother in a poor district of Grand-Wroclaw in Silesia, one of the sub-provinces of Sino-Russia governed by the Neo-triads. Because he has transgressed the law of Assöl the Mongol, a godfather of the clan, Wang has no other choice but to follow the path of exile.
For a gateway sometimes opens in the screen at Most in Bohemia. But what happens to emigrants from Occident?They speak of slavery or even worse; they say they are forced to fight each other like gladiators. No one has ever returned to tell the tale... The Eiffel Tower Prize for Science Fiction 1997
It is the 23rd century. An impassable screen protects Occident from its neighbouring empires. Wang, a young seventeen-year-old Chinese boy, lives with his grandmother in a poor district of Grand-Wroclaw in Silesia, one of the sub-provinces of Sino-Russia governed by the Neo-triads. Because he has transgressed the law of Assöl the Mongol, a godfather of the clan, Wang has no other choice but to follow the path of exile.
For a gateway sometimes opens in the screen at Most in Bohemia. But what happens to emigrants from Occident?They speak of slavery or even worse; they say they are forced to fight each other like gladiators. No one has ever returned to tell the tale... The Eiffel Tower Prize for Science Fiction 1997
