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‘[A] French cult classic… Think: lesbian DJ love triangles, anticonformists, grainy MTV and designer drugs’ Playboy

‘The literary queen of the Paris techno scene’ Guardian

Paris, late 90s: at the centre of the city’s queer techno scene, musician Louise lives in a haze of parties, drugs and hooking up. A group of women orbits her magnetic DJ ex-girlfriend Alex; as they bar hop, go to each other’s sets and climb into each other’s beds, Louise struggles to make rent and work on her own electronic music.

Then comes what should be her big moment: Louise gets a life-changing record contract, but she has no idea what she wants. Pulled between her ex-boyfriend Nikki and her old life in rock bands and a volatile new crush in her techno world, Louise begins careening off the rails, leaving chaos in her wake.

Raw, caustic and pulsing with the music that enraptured a generation, Superstars is an electrifying immersion in Paris’s 90s rave scene by a cult author who lived it all.

Publisher Review

Hailed as the literary queen of the Paris techno scene, whose cult novel Superstars immortalized the hedonism and rivalry of the sweat-drenched dancefloors and rave parties of 1990s France * Guardian * A wild music scene and an illicit affair propel Scott’s entrancing English-language debut… Scott’s addictive narrative offers a kaleidoscopic look at a lively milieu and a woman’s struggle to overcome heartbreak and obsession, and make a life for herself as an artist * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * This French cult classic novel chronicles Paris’ queer rave scene in the ’90s. Think: lesbian DJ love triangles, anticonformists, grainy MTV, and designer drugs * Playboy, ‘Most Anticipated Books of 2026’ * The iconic Ann Scott chronicles the Paris lesbian techno scene of the ’90s with language as rhythmic and hypnotic as trance music itself, reveling in the debauchery and beauty, the hard drugs and rough sex. This is a wildly ecstatic novel… Brilliant, relentless, and wild as fuck — Paula Bomer, author of ‘The Stalker’ A raw story, as direct as a slap or a first kiss, Superstars is a hymn to suffering, to furtive delights, to undying love. Scott writes like someone plunging a sword into her reader to disseminate the naughtiest of pleasures * Le Figaro *