Babylon Babies

Babylon Babies
First edition
AuthorMaurice G. Dantec
TranslatorNoura Wedell
LanguageFrench
GenreScience fiction novel
PublisherGallimard
Publication date
December 1999
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages526 pp
ISBN978-1-58435-023-1
OCLC61129655
843/.914 22
LC ClassPQ2664.A4888 B3314 2005

Babylon Babies is the third novel by French-born Canadian writer Maurice G. Dantec, published in 1999. It follows La Sirène rouge (1993) and Les Racines du mal (1995).

Plot

Set in 2014, the main character, Hugo Cornelius Toorop (hero of The Red Siren), is a mercenary whose mission is to escort a young woman with schizophrenia, Marie Zorn, from Siberia to Quebec on behalf of a sect. It appears that the young woman is the surrogate mother of twins, representing the next stage of human evolution.

Publication

The novel was published by Gallimard on 12 March 1999 in the collection La Noire.[1] A paperback edition was then published on 4 April 2001 in the collection Folio SF.[2]

Film adaptation

Main article: Babylon A.D.

Mathieu Kassovitz and Éric Besnard developed an English-language adaptation of Dantec's novel[3] with financing from StudioCanal and Twentieth Century Fox.[4] Vin Diesel was cast to play the lead, alongside Mark Strong, Michelle Yeoh, and Charlotte Rampling.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dantec, Maurice G (1999). La Noire. Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-075471-7.
  2. ^ Dantec, Maurice G (2001). Babylon babies. Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-041753-7.
  3. ^ Thompson, Anne. "Babylon A.D.: Kassovitz on Warpath Against Fox". Variety. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21.
  4. ^ Fox beckoned by 'Babylon' Archived February 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Alison James (2006-02-08). "Studio Canal eyes English-lingo pix". Variety. Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
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