Résultats pour "Fauna" dans Science-fiction

Set seventeen years into a very recognisable future, Fauna is an astonishing psychological drama with an incredible twist: What if the child you are carrying is not entirely human? Using DNA technology, scientists have started to reverse the extinction of creatures like the mammoth and the...

Un conte vertigineux sur l'impermanence des civilisations. Au sommet d'une montagne vit une petite fille nommée Astrée, avec pour seule compagnie de vieilles machines silencieuses. Un après-midi, elle est dérangée par l'apparition inopinée d'un faune en quête de gloire et de savoir. Le faune veut appréhender le destin qui attend sa race primitive. Astrée, pour sa part, est consumée d'un ennui mortel, face à un cosmos que sa science a privé de toute profondeur et de toute poésie.

A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains, and once safely classified species - humans included - are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her.

Deirdre Green is no stranger to losing it all. Nearly two decades after her father's mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend, her job, and her London flat all go up in smoke. But when she suddenly inherits what’s left of her family’s publishing business, Deirdre is shocked to discover the cryptic magical conspiracy revealed in its remains.