Snowpiercer Author: [France] Jean-Marc Rochette Translator: Huang Lingzi Publisher: Cultural Development Press

Snowpiercer is set against the backdrop of a catastrophe, depicting the struggle of the surviving humans who hide in a perpetual motion machine-driven train that runs endlessly on the frozen ground after the entire earth has turned into a freezing hell. The author has very heavy concerns about the future world. In this not-too-long comic, there are concerns about the relationship between humans and nature, reflections on the entry of history into the industrial age, and criticisms of issues in real society such as abuse of power, class oppression, and violent monopoly. It can be said to be a science fiction epic full of realistic concerns.

In a doomsday scene, everything has disappeared, leaving only a train running endlessly. The train carries the only remaining human society, with a strict hierarchy, with the rich and powerful class at the front and the increasingly poor proletariat at the back. The train also carries the necessary supplies and food for survival, all just to ensure that the train can run endlessly and life will never stop.

The earth's climate suddenly changed, turning into a freezing hell. The surviving humans hid in a train driven by a perpetual motion machine, running endlessly on the frozen land. Once it stopped, everyone would freeze to death. Inside the train, people living in the last carriage suffered from overcrowding, dirtiness and hunger, and lived a life without dignity. Prolov couldn't stand it anymore, so he broke the glass and tried to escape to the front carriage.

However, as he moved towards the front of the train, everything he saw shocked and confused him: the coffee, tobacco, botanical garden, aquarium, library that should have disappeared long ago... turned out to still exist on the train; people paid fanatical worship to the sacred perpetual motion machine, as if it were a new religion; and the people in the last carriage were able to survive only because of food of questionable origin... The closer he got to the front of the train, the closer he got to the answer to the mystery of fate.

The closed train envelops the entire human society, and no one can escape the fate of wandering. Where will the Snowpiercer take the last humans?