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Plasmas

Celine Minard author Annabel L Kim translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing

Published:5th Dec '24

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A speculative masterpiece of technology and mythmaking that contemplates humanity.

The stories in Plasmas dive into a post-human, more-than-human world where life as we know it has been replaced by life as it goes on. Acrobats glide through the air attached to biotech devices, an archivist presents scenes from Earth after interstellar colonization to her students, and scientists in Siberia play god with a manmade beast.

Written as a series of vignettes into futures near and far, Plasmas dives into questions of legacy, memory, the body, and technology through striking prose from one of France’s leading sci-fi writers. Equally comfortable in the worlds of Donna Haraway and Vladimir Nabokov, Plasmas is stunning in both philosophical and literary depth.

Winner of the French Prix de l'imaginaire 2022

"Plasmas is a cubist painting: representing reality, while simultaneously shattering our perception of it.”  —The Harvard Gazette

"Plasmas is six stories that, as an archipelago—vaguely disquieting, wonderfully styled—constitutes a unique literary planet, if not a constellation of heretofore unclassified matter, forming an unprecedented unknown.” Le Monde

"With Plasmas, Céline Minard demonstrates the fertility of an imagination controlled by a very ‘plastic’ sense of narration, making this crafted figuration an invitation to surprise.” —Alain Nicolas, L’Humanité

"A transfusion of Plasmas will not be enough to save our ailing world... But in regenerating literature, there is no doubt.” —Elisabeth Phillipe, Le Nouvel Obs

ISBN: 9781646053520

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150 pages