Babylon Babies (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
Contributors: Noura Wedell (Translator)
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: September 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9781584350231
Subjects: Science Fiction; Genetic engineering; Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction - General; Fiction / Science Fiction / General
Description: 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.