[REVIEW] Gilles Trehin, Urville

[rfmcdonald]

Belgian Gilles Trehin 's Urville is a marvellous uchronia, a vast detailed sketching of a fictional city of Urville. Home to twelve million people and located just off of the cost of Provence, Urville is given full form in a marvellous set of detailed sketches of the major points of interest (builidings, parks, and so on) all placed within the context of French histroy--Trehin's website.provides a sample. My only problem with Urville is that this uchronia is flawed by the fact that a southern French metropolis more populous and wealthy than Paris would surely have radically altered the dynamics of the French state (might Aragon-Occitania live?). That said, it was easy to avoid nitpciking the book as I read about the Hôtel de Ville and the skyscpraers of the financial distrct. Go, read.