"E.Borgers" <
webeurop@yahoo.fr> wrote:
<< However, if you ask my opinion, Dantec became a
schizophrenic writer during the last 5-6 years, and, you're
right, Babylon Babies (1999 in French) is SF . Unless you are
attracted by literary oddities, my friendly advice is to stay
away from the book. Too long, too much, too paranoid... and
finally not much left after reading it
-but it had its supporters. It's a pity because Dantec was a
gifted writer, and his first novels are still worth to be
read, but I do not think they were translated: "La sirène
rouge" (The Red Mermaid), 1993 - "Les racines du mal" (The
Roots of Evil), 1995. the second one was a big success; he
already mixed genres: noir and a bit of cyberpunk SF, but it
was balanced and interesting. Both were published by Série
Noire.
>>
In the post-EYE OF THE BEHOLDER novels by Marc Behm I've
read, he does a bit of genre mixing as well.
Part noir, part dark fantasy.
Behm has lived in France for many years, and I wonder if this
is just something he's picked up as part of the French
popular literary milieu, or is there a "genre" of mixed-genre
fiction that's popular in Europe?
- Duane Spurlock www.pulprack.com
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