Babylon Babies
# Babylon Babies

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).

## Plot

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.

## Publication

The novel was published by Gallimard on 12 March 1999 in the collection La Noire. A paperback edition was then published on 4 April 2001 in the collection Folio SF.

## Film adaptation

Mathieu Kassovitz and Éric Besnard developed an English-language adaptation of Dantec's novel with financing from StudioCanal and Twentieth Century Fox. Vin Diesel was cast to play the lead, alongside with Mark Strong, Michelle Yeoh, and Charlotte Rampling.

