THE PSYCHEDELIC SCI-FI CLASSIC

Now published for the very first time in English, Stephan Wul’s FANTASTIC PLANET (Oms En Série) is a classic of Science Fiction and the inspiration for the award-winning 1973 animated film La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet).

The last surviving humans are taken from Earth to the wild planet Ygam by the Traags, a race of blue-skinned, red-eyed giants. Here they become known as Oms, used as lowly servants and regarded as savages.

Little by little, led by a young man of superior intelligence named Terr, the Oms regain their thirst for liberty and rise up against the draags to affirm their humanity in the face of oppression.

This deceptively simple story-line is vividly depicted by author Wul with mind-bending detail and a stirring mythopoeic resonance.

About FANTASTIC PLANET (the film):
“This psychedelic landmark in feature animation by René Laloux has become a cult classic, influencing decades of pop culture with its trippy sci-fi tale of humans enslaved by an alien race of super-intelligent blue giants and treated as dumb pets. When one human child escapes from his master he opens up a new world of knowledge to the humans and sparks a rebellion. Like an ethereal cross between Planet of the Apes and Yellow Submarine, the film captures the contemporary zeitgeist with bands of scrappy humans battling their highly-evolved, meditating, gill-eared overlords through a sinuous alien landscape filled with bizarre Hieronymus Bosch plant and animal life, all painstakingly rendered in beautifully detailed crosshatch drawings. This visionary and beautiful work won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and remains a mind-bendingly entertaining touchstone of counterculture art.”