Reviews for Babylon Sisters

The average rating for Babylon Sisters based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-30 00:00:00 Michael Perkowski The depth of Di Filippo's imagination and vision is amazing, considering the majority of these stories were published during the nineties, way before the world became the way it is now. These visions seem more cutting edge, relevant, even, with the modern perspective. In a future echoing another of his short story collection masterpieces, Ribofunk, Babylon Sisters says, "You're worried about GMOs? Ha! It's the future, baby." A feat of the imagination, this set of quite possibly loosely connected stories extrapolates a vivid and transformative future. Earth is invaded by unbeatable aliens, and humans transfigure themselves using the genomes of various species and the behavior patterns of viruses. A man learns how to sense gravity and is unburdened. Scabs are people who swoop in biological Chernobyls to steal and encode genetic secrets. An Africa is possessed by Maxwell's Demons, and the protagonist sets out to kill the man who let the genie out of the bottle. Tomorrow has never been weirder, and, dare I say, beautiful.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-05-19 00:00:00 Doris Ciesinski Weird! Di Filippo is my new fave scifi author. (That's saying a lot.) :)