| Babylon Babies | |
| Translator: | Noura Wedell |
| Author: | Maurice G. Dantec |
| Language: | French |
| Genre: | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher: | Gallimard |
| Release Date: | December 1999 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 526 pp |
| Isbn: | 978-1-58435-023-1 |
| Dewey: | 843/.914 22 |
| Congress: | PQ2664.A4888 B3313 2005 |
| Oclc: | 61129655 |
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).
Set in 2013, 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.
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]
See main article: article and 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]