“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 ReviewIn the hi
A cult novel in France, this sci-fi thriller is now being made into a movie byMathieu Kassovitz. Set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborgcommunities and peopled by Serbi
On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later,
Fifty years of warfare, disease, and strife have decimated the world's population. Those who remain are motes in the mind of UniWorld, a superstate that monitors humanity via a vast computer metastru