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the complete review - fiction

Cosmos Incorporated

by
Maurice G. Dantec

[an overview of the reviews and critical reactions]

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Haven't gotten our hands on a copy yet


Chances that we will review it:
Decent; we'd certainly like to have a look

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  From the Reviews:

• "La mise en action de ce robot/personnage donne les meilleures pages du livre -- les premières -- dans lesquelles Dantec affirme ses qualités de narrateur. Dans celles qui suivent, sorte de jeu de miroirs entre l'écrivain écrivant et le robot se découvrant une conscience, doublé d'un discours abscons sur la chrétienté comme seul refuge d'une humanité perdue, le roman (le quoi ?) devient franchement énervant." - Eric Libiot, L'Express
  
  
• "Dantec (...) writes harsh, choppy prose -- not improved by Kover's translation -- and the convoluted plot often grinds to a halt amid technical jargon, discourse on society's devolution and abstruse narrative philosophy." - Publishers Weekly
  
  
• "Avec Cosmos Incorporated, il offre une fiction plus serrée et limpide qu'on l'attendrait. (...) Dantec fonce dans l'univers cyber-punk avec le plein d'idées, mais non sans une certaine naïveté." - Nicolas Dufour, Le Temps

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Links:

• Del Rey publicity page

• Boojum (French)
• Le Cafard cosmique (French)
• L'Express (French)
• Fantasy Book Critic
• Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
• Lire (French)
• Publishers Weekly
• SF Crowsnest

• Official site

• [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.)]

• See Index of Science Fiction and Fantasy books
• See Index of French literature

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About the Author:

       French autor Maurice G. Dantec was born in 1959.

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