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Niourk
Sign in to savethumb|First editionCover art by René Brantonne Niourk (published 1957) is a science fiction novel by the French writer Stefan Wul. It first appeared as one of the Fleuve Noir Anticipation collection published in France since 1951 which reflected the authors' attitudes towards the supposed post war rise of a "technocracy" in the country.
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thumb|First editionCover art by René Brantonne Niourk (published 1957) is a science fiction novel by the French writer Stefan Wul. It first appeared as one of the Fleuve Noir Anticipation collection published in France since 1951 which reflected the authors' attitudes towards the supposed post war rise of a "technocracy" in the country.
==Plot== The name of the novel, "Niourk", comes from the pronunciation of the name of New York City, and the book presents a future in which Earth is deserted and only small bands of hunter-gatherer tribes exist on a Paleolithic level.
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