Babylon Babies
by Maurice G Dantec
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Author: Maurice G DantecTranslator: Noura Wedell
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-29
ISBN: 0345505972
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: Good Book, So-So Translation ?
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm writing a review, but still feel like I'm reserving judgment of this book somewhat. I just finished it. I really like the ideas and themes presented in the book. Other reviewers keep calling this a cyberpunk book, and I guess that's accurate enough, but cyberpunk always seemed to have as much an emphasis on style as it did on substance. Babylon Babies is a meaty book. It packs a lot of ideas into what could otherwise be a run-of-the-mill action/spy/science fiction thriller. I liked how the author linked together shamanism and near-future tech in a pretty believable way. There were a lot of dream sequences, particularly towards the end, but dreams are central to the book's theme (as they are also to any form of shamanism that I've ever heard of.)
However, the book's greatest weakness seems to be the translation, particularly the dialogue. Many of the quips or glib one-liners by the characters really didn't make a lot of sense. Often I felt like I was forced to sort of extrapolate out from the context just exactly what the author was trying to convey with a particularly line of dialogue. Outside of the dialogue though, the prose flows pretty well and the author and translator do a good job of explaining a very fantastic and certainly complicated fusion of spiritual and technological ideas.
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