Babylon Babies

I’m possibly being generous with a second star. Written twenty years ago, this near future (from the time of its composition—2017) action thriller features cyborgs, doomsday cults and homicidal mafioso and bikers leveling entire blocks of Canada fighting for a woman pregnant with technology that mig......more

-Es difícil decir lo que se quiere si no se encuentran las palabras para ello o si las que se encuentran no son las precisas.- Género. Ciencia-Ficción. Lo que nos cuenta. A comienzos de la segunda década del siglo XXI, Hugo Cornelius Toorop es un veterano de la guerra de Bosnia y de otros conflictos q......more

It’s not a great sign when the title of your experimental cyberpunk novel — published by “semiotext(e),” MIT’s theory imprint, yet! — has a title that makes you think of the Muppet Babies except everyone is in those big hats and beards. I thought maybe it’d be better in French — “Enfants de Babylone......more

Dantec is a French writer, and I suspect his novel is poorly translated. Why else would "smoked meat" be italicized? Not one but twice, a character purchases smoked meat. Everyone says "gonna," as in "I'm gonna do this or that," but there are no other contractions or slang -- never a "we're" or "I'l......more

Dans un 2013 bien différent de celui que nous avons connu, Hugo Cornélius Toorop, mercenaire bourru, reçois pour mission d’escorter de Sibérie jusqu’au Québec une jeune femme, Marie Zorn. La mission parait simple, mais c’est sans compter lefait que Marie soit schizophrène, et porteuse de jumelles mo......more