Babylon Babies

Babylon Babies is the third novel of Maurice G. Dantec.

Edition

The novel was published at Gallimard the March 12th 1999 in the collection the Black one (ISBN-10: 2070754715). An edition of pocket was then published the April 4th 2001 in the collection Folio SF. (ISBN-10: 2070417530)

Account

2013, the main character, Toorop, are a mercenary whose mission consists in escorting a schizophrenic young woman , Marie Zorn, of Siberia until the Quebec (where Dantec saw) for the account of a sect. It proves that the young woman is the surrogate mother of genetically modified binoculars, representing the next stage of the human evolution, from where the title of the novel.

Style

The novel starts with a page of references to scientific works, which registers work in the posture resolutely " post-moderne" of the writer, whose very critical mode of writing will develop thereafter in the Theater of the Operations .

Infos appendices

Mathieu Kassovitz currently works on a film adaptation of Babylon Babies , entitled Babylon A.D. .

Contrairement to what is advanced by the author, the Nombre of Avogadro does not represent the number of atoms in the universe, and the quoted value is false: one does not speak about 10E26 but about 10E23.

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