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| Genre/Form: | Science fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dantec, Maurice G. Babylon babies. Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, c2005 (OCoLC)652313362 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maurice G Dantec; Noura Wedell |
| ISBN: | 1584350237 9781584350231 |
| OCLC Number: | 61129655 |
| Language Note: | Text translated into English. |
| Description: | 526 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series Title: | Semiotext(e) native agents series. |
| Other Titles: | Babylon babies. |
| Responsibility: | Maurice G. Dantec ; translated by Noura Wedell. |
Abstract:
A cult novel in France, this sci-fi thriller is now being made into a movie by Mathieu Kassovitz. Set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities and peopled by Serbian Mafiosi, Babylon Babies has as its hero a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran of Sarajevo named Thoorop who is hired by a mysterious source to escort a young woman named Marie Zorn from Russia to Canada. A garden variety job, he figures. But when Thoorop is offered an even higher fee by another organization, he realizes Marie is no ordinary girl. A schizophrenic and the possible carrier of a new artificial virus, Marie is carrying a mutant embryo created by an American cult that dreams of producing a genetically modified messiah, a dream that spells out the end of human life as we know it.
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