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the complete review - fiction

Babylon Babies
(Babylon A.D.)

by
Maurice G. Dantec

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Had a look, couldn't get into it


Chances that we will review it:
Decent, though it may be a while

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  From the Reviews:

• "These are all clever inventions, but what makes the novel (translated by Noura Wedell) so haunting is its vision of a near future in which society has fractured along every possible national, tribal and sectarian fault line. Wars among European, Islamic and Asian militias blur together as seamlessly as a rerun of Beverly Hills 90210 gives way to a Russian broadcast of Swan Lake, and every last surviving scrap of humanity is left to its own devices to continue what Dantec calls "the austere work of survival."" - David Itzkoff, The New York Times Book Review
  
  
• "Riddled with acronyms and pop culture allusions, this is an intense, intellectually labyrinthine ride." - Publishers Weekly

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Links:

• MIT Press publicity page
• Del Rey publicity page

• Le Cafard cosmique (French)
• Emerald City
• L'Express (French)
• fluctuat.net (French)
• Lire (French)
• Página/12 (Spanish)
• The Pinocchio Theory
• Publishers Weekly
• Revista Gigamesh (Spanish)
• sffworld.com
• Strange Horizons

• IMDb page

• Official site

• [Cosmos Incorporated]

• See Index of Science Fiction and Fantasy books
• See Index of French literature

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About the Author:

       French autor Maurice G. Dantec was born in 1959.

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