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Information from the French Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to the English one. A Eva,
à mon père, à ma mère,
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Information from the French Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to the English one. Vivre était donc une expérience incroyable, où le plus beau jour de votre existence pouvait s'avérer le dernier, où coucher avec la mort vous garantissait de voir le matin suivant, et où quelque règles d'or s'imposaient avec constance : ne jamais marcher dans le sens du vent, ne jamais tourner le dos à une fenêtre, ne jamais dormir deux fois de suite au même endroit, rester toujours dans l'axe du soleil, n'avoir confiance en rien ni en personne, suspendre son souffle avec la perfection du mort vivant à l'instant de libérer le métal salvateur. | |
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Information from the French Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to the English one. Joe-Jane le savait, Sata et Ieva Zorn étaient, sont , seront cette nouvelle limite, tout autant que son franchissement, elles sont là, aux portes de cet univers dont tout indique qu'il est comestible pour leur ventre-cerveau affamé, dévoreuses d'astres, suceuses de photons, baiseuses d'hydrogène en fusion thermonucléaire, pétroleuses du carré de la lumière, liquidatrices somptueuses de la faillite humaine, ravage crucial, terminal tout autant qu'originel, cardinal et plastiquement inédit, ondes de choc en attente autour d'un point d'impact qui a déjà explosé, et qui pour le moment suspendu dans le temps gelé du Caméscope historique, se délecte de l'effet à venir, lorsque toute l'énergie ainsi contenue viendra à s'actualiser brutalement, délivrant une secousse, un séisme, un cyclone, dont nul encore ne peut vraiment deviner l'amplitude ni la forme. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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“What makes the novel so haunting is its vision of a near future in which society has fractured along every possible national, tribal and sectarian fault line.” –The New York Times Book Review
In the hidden “flesh and chip” breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities, Toorop, a hard-boiled Special Forces veteran of Sarajevo, is hired by a shadow organization to escort a young woman, Marie Zorn, from Russia to Canada. But what appears to be a routine job is anything but. After completing the mission, Thoorop discovers that Marie is no ordinary girl. A genetically altered pawn in an elaborate plot, Marie is carrying a dark secret that could spell destruction for all humankind–if Thoorop doesn’t track her down before it’s too late.
“A vast encyclopedia of the future as seen through a crystal ball with cracks in the glass.” –The Sydney Morning Herald
“Intense.” –Publishers Weekly (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:45:21 -0400) ▾Library descriptions "Set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities and peopled by Siberian mafiosi, Babylon Babies has as its hero a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran of Sarajevo named Toorop. His latest assignment is to escort a young woman named Marie Zorn from Russia to Canada. But when Toorop 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 bearing a mutant embryo created by an American cult, the Cosmic Church of the New Resurrection. They dream of producing a genetically modified messiah, which will end all human life as we know it."--BOOK JACKET.… (more) (summary from another edition) » see all 3 descriptions |
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