Sabrina Calvo

ActuaBD described the work as [20] A radical album, with a minimalist and unbridled style, to be reserved for fans of absolute modernityIn 2015, Sabrina Calvo published Sous la Colline, a transfeminist[21] urban fantasy novel exploring the intimate topography of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse in Marseille and exploiting the myths of the city.

[22][23] Her counter-dystopian novel Toxoplasma, featuring an anti-capitalist commune in Montreal[24] and questioning gender identities, won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2018.

[25][26] She continued her exploration of these themes with Melmoth Furieux, an uchronia published in 2021, featuring an update of the Paris Commune in an alternative, policed and authoritarian present.

[22][27] In this novel, she takes her inspiration from Eulalie Papavoine, a dressmaker and ambulance driver during the Paris Commune, for the book's main character and narrator named Fi.

[28][29] Her novels, often classified as science fiction, explore the geographical worlds of cities such as Marseille, Paris and Montreal, in a dystopian, dreamlike universe inspired by maps of places and revolutionary historical events from an anti-capitalist, anarchist and transfeminist perspective, at the crossroads between the genres of cyber punk and urban fantasy.