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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1989
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The Ranks of the Black Order

    Using contemporary Europe as a backdrop, the French team of Bilal and Christin have produced a stark, somberly illustrated exploration of revolutionary politics and the attendant brute fanaticism. As he reads a dispatch describing a savage, right-win...

  • The Hunting Party

    Ten members of the Soviet Politburo gather at a sumptuous country home for a weekend of shooting. In reality, this winter hunt is only an excuse for an elaborate game of death filled with suspense and intrigue. A fascinating story which reads like a ...

  • Townscapes

  • Valerian

    Technorog is a planet essential to the economy of the Terran empire. For 200 years, it has been a centre of industry, research and agriculture. Suddenly, the indigenous population -- believed long extinct -- comes back to the planet they know as Alfl...

  • Valerian: The New Future Trilogy, Volume 1

    VALERIAN is a saga that every fan of Star Wars and Star Trek will identify with and love. Valerian and his beautiful, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued partner, Laureline, live adventures set against visually stunning backgrounds: complex architectural ...

  • The Chaos Effect

  • The City of Shifting Waters: Valerian Vol. 1

    Galaxity, capital of the Terran Empire in the 28th century. Valerian and Laureline are agents who protect mankind from rogue time travellers. Now they are sent to New York in 1986 to intercept Galaxity's worst megalomaniac, Xombul-except that in 1986...

  • The Empire of a Thousand Planets: Valerian Vol. 2

    Valerian and Laureline are exploring Syrte, capital planet of a system of 1,000 worlds. Their mission is to discover whether the Syrtians could present a danger to Earth. What they find is a decaying empire led by decadent aristocrats, a population r...

  • The Land Without Stars: Valerian Vol. 3

    When a rogue planet threatens a new Human colony, Valerian and Laureline are sent to investigate and discover a barren, rocky surface… and a whole world beneath it! The people who live inside Zahir have never seen the stars. Divid...



  • Welcome to Alflolol: Valerian Vol. 4

    Technorog is a planet essential to the economy of the Terran empire. For 200 years, it has been a centre of industry, research and agriculture. Suddenly, the indigenous population -- believed long extinct -- comes back to the planet...

  • Birds of the Master

    The most terrifying birds since Alfred Hitchcock’s!Valerian and Laureline’s ship has crash-landed on an uncharted planetoid. The two castaways quickly discover a vast ship cemetery, leading them to beli...

  • Ambassador of the Shadows

    Who threatens the diplomatic future of Earth? And who are the mysterious Shadows?Point Central is a multicultural space station that serves as a sort of United Nations to the galaxy. Tasked with protecting the ne...

  • On the False Earths: Valerian

    A spatio-temporal agent is always ready to give his… lives… for the mission?!Valerian, shot to death in an Indian fortress. Valerian, dead in 19th century London. Valerian, gunned do...

  • Heroes of the Equinox: Valerian

    This time, it’s an official hero’s job for Valerian!Every 100 years or so, the infertile people of Simlanne send their champions to the sacred island of Filene, where the best ...

  • Chatelet Station, Destination Cassiopeia: Valerian

    A difficult investigation across space and time. Our two spatio-temporal agents are on a new mission, but this time the duo is split up. While Laureline flies solo from planet to planet, on the trail of arms dealers and forbidden technologies, Valeri...

  • Brooklyn Line, Terminus Cosmos

    On Earth and in space, in the past and the future, greed and the thirst for power place Mankind in immediate danger.The two Galaxity agents’ investigation into the elemental forces appearing on Earth continues....

  • The Ghosts of Inverloch: Valerian & Laureline

    Spatio-temporal agents must preserve Earth’s future, always. But is it still possible? Galaxity’s orders are rather bizarre, lately. Laureline has been left on stand-by in a Scottish castle. Valerian, haunted by recurrent nightmares, has been...

  • Ambassador of the Shadows: Valerian & Laureline

    Point Central is a multicultural space station that serves as a sort of United Nations to the galaxy. Tasked with protecting the new ambassador from Earth, Valerian is kidnappe...

  • Century's End

    Century's End collects two of the most accomplished comics narratives to come out of the creative collaboration between visionary artist Enki Bilal and celebrated writer Pierre Christin.In ‘The Black Order Brigade', a group of aging revolutionaries...



  • On the Frontiers: Valerian & Laureline

    15.00 800x600 On an interstellar cruise ships, a mysterious individual in full environmental suit is working hard to get to Earth. On Earth, meanwhile,another person in a spacesuit is exploring a nuclear reactor on behalf of its owners. That second...

  • The Living Weapons: Valerian & Laureline

    Valerian and Laureline, no longer members of any organization, are down to doing space deliveries. With Galaxity gone and money getting scarce, their aging spaceship is becoming a hazard, which is pushing Valerian into accepting questiona...

  • The Circles of Power: Valerian & Laureline

    Broke, without a job, their ship almost a scrap heap, Valerian and Laureline are stuck on Rubanis, unable to pay for repairs. So when a trio of old acquaintances introduces them to the head of the local police, who is looking for independent agents f...

  • Valerian: The Complete Collection (Volume One)

    This first volume of the collection contains books 1 and 2 of the series: The City of Shifting Waters - in its original two parts, 9 pages longer format - and The Empire of a Thousand Planets. It also includes book 0, Bad Dreams, translated into Engl...

  • Hostages of Ultralum

    Valerian and Laureline take a break from adventuring and go on a cruise, but Valerian feels uncomfortable among the idle and the powerful. He’s not bored for long, though, because when a quartet of mercenaries board the cruise ship to kidnap th...

  • Valerian: The Complete Collection (Volume Two)

    In this book you will find volumes 3 to 5: The Land Without Stars, Welcome to Alflolol and Birds of the Master - three stories that introduce the societal criticism aspect of the series. Battle of the sexes, totalitarianism and extreme productivism a...

  • Orphan of the Stars: Valerian & Laureline

    Running away with the unhappy heir to the galaxy's biggest fortune, even if it's because he wants it, is bound to cause some problems. On the lam with the Caliphette of Iksaladam, Valerian and Laureline are relentlessly pursued by the...

  • In Uncertain Times

    The (false?) gods of Hypsis are once again interfering with Human history. Tired of their lower status among their peers, the trinity in charge of planet Earth opens communications with megacorporation Vivaxis at the end of the 20th c...

  • At the Edge of the Great Void

    Somewhere at the edge of known space is the Great Void. That inscrutable, shapeless, ever-changing place is where the expanding universe springs forth, where new planets and new life forms are created. It's also, according to the g...

  • Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City

    The achievements of one man changed the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's Financial District to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of thi...



  • The Order of the Stones

    The expedition into the heart of the Great Void is launched, and Valerian and Laureline are on it. But in no time they’re already facing the mysterious force that threatens the entire galaxy: the Wolochs, gigantic sentient monoliths dea...

  • The Time Opener

    The evil hordes of the Wolochs are rampaging through space, and everywhere death and destruction follow. But despite the despair of some and the betrayal of others, Valerian, Laureline and a few other brave souls are resisting. They'r...

  • Memories from the Futures

    Even though Valerian and Laureline's adventures have come to an end, there are still many chapters that haven't been told yet. Simple episodes, post-scriptums to their main stories, moments of their lives seen through the eyes of t...

  • Valerian: The Complete Collection

    This volume contains books 9 to 12 â€" two unmissable two-parters that represent a turning point in the story of our agents, and which are widely considered by critics and readers alike to be the pinnacle of the series. Characterised by a...

  • The Future is waiting

    Several new chapters of Valerian and Laureline's adventures -- but are they flashbacks, or … ? After the events of The Time Opener, Valerian and Laureline reverted to childhood, and are now living with Mr Albert on 21st century Earth. But in...

  • Bilal: Legends of Today

    Legends of Today brings together the first three volumes that Enki Bilal has created in collaboration with the scriptwriter Pierre Christin: The Cruise of Forgotten (1975), The Stone Vessel (1976) and The City That Did Not Exist (1977).

    Antago...

  • Orwell

    An intimate look at the life and work of England’s greatest novelist and political essayist, and author of the dystopian masterpiece 1984
     
    George Orwell’s most celebrated work, 1984, and the prescient vision it contains of a ...

  • Where Stories Are Born

    The Delphs are an artificial species who depend entirely on an extremely rare substance, that not only allows them to live and reproduce, but also fuels their creative talents – for the Delphs are the most sought-after storytellers in the galax...

  • Valerian: The Complete Collection (Volume Three)

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    This third book of the collected edition contains volumes 6 to 8: Ambassador of the Shadows - the story that directly inspired Luc Besson''s film - On the False Earths and Heroes of the Equinox. Over the course of these titles, among the finest in th...

  • Valerian: The Illustrated Treasury

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    Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets introduced audiences to a future populated by weird and wonderful aliens and laced with incredible futuristic technology. Now discover the universe of the original Valerian and Laureline ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pierre Christin has published 39 books.

Pierre Christin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Where Stories Are Born, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Pierre Christin, The Ranks of the Black Order, was published in June 1989.

No. Pierre Christin does not write books in series.
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