2012, ISBN: 9789993579427

Paperback. New. Paperback. 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 firs… Plus…

Paperback. New. Paperback. 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. Inspired by Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, Gilles Deleuze, and other extrapolationists of the future, Babylon Babies unfolds at breakneck speed as Thoorop risks his life to save Marie, whose brain -- linking to the neuromatrix -- loses all limits and becomes the universe itself. Exploring the symbiosis between organic matter and computer power to spin new forms of consciousness, Maurice Dantec rides Nietzsches prophecy: Man is something to be overcome. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Port-au-Prince:: L'auteur,. 2012.. 1st ed.. Paperback. New. 8vo, wrps, 202 p., notes, facsimile. . "Il est fils de paysan, genie intellectuel qui doit sa carriere a un coup de thatre de la vie. Il nourrit un reve : celui de combattre la dictature qui terrasse la population dans les coins et recoins du pays. A political novel about a family living under a totalitarian dictatorship. The author's education was in agriculture and politics, but his desire to become a writer led to an unfinished theatre piece which would eventually become this novel., L'auteur, 2012.<