Babylon Twins
by Michael Ferris Gibson
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Pub Date Oct 05 2021 | Archive Date Oct 04 2021
Girl Friday Productions | Girl Friday Books
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Description
“A gleefully apocalyptic page-turner . . .” —Kirkus Reviews
Meet Chloe and Elizabeth Yetti: antisocial, semi-homicidal eighteen-year-old twins casually surviving the AI apocalypse.
Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nanoengineered superdrug on humanity. Civilization is now a collection of mindless addicts confined to automated treatment centers that tower over drone-dominated cityscapes. Having escaped and grown up in the forests of Northern California alongside their younger brother and brilliant scientist/survivalist mother, Clo and El stayed safe while society collapsed around them.
But when a mysterious stranger and a demonic woodland creature appear and threaten their family, the twins are drawn back to a disintegrating, drug-addled San Francisco. There, biomechanical gods and monsters vie for control of what’s left of humanity’s consciousness. Armed with only a knife, an old hunting rifle, and their secret, cryptophasic twin language, Clo and El realize that surviving the apocalypse was just the beginning—now they’ve got to face it head-on.
The first book in the Babylon Twins trilogy, this epic adventure takes readers on a journey filled with sci-fi spectacle and darkly humorous twists and turns, not to mention some good old-fashioned butt-kicking. The second book in the series will be coming out in 2022.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“Gibson surely has a hit on his hands with BABYLON TWINS, which snarks its way across a computerized hellscape with just the right amount of human error to be endearing instead of messy. Its boisterous prose and laugh-out loud moments of weirdness should carry it to the top of genre fans’ reading lists.”
—Famous Monsters of Filmland
“A sterling debut YA novel from author Michael Ferris Gibson sets the stage for a great science fiction trilogy."
—Red Carpet Crash
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781954854116 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 372 |
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Librarian 470359
Babylon Twins vibes give me Christopher Moore meets the zombie genre. Only this time the zombie's are addicted to their phones, witch is fine because I'm addicted to my phone.
El and Clo the twins in question out run the first wave of the zombie's thanks to their mom. Who had a hand in the downfall of humanity. Family trip into the woods forever! Even that doesn't last long. Mom heads into the wild world after a zombie Santa ruins the peaceful life they made for themselves.
After sometime, El and Clo along with their brother Drye decide they must find Mom.
For me I give this book a 3/5,
Sierra B, Reviewer
2.5 stars, rounded down. Babylon Twins is quite a ride—incomprehensible and incoherent at times, but still wildly entertaining and fun. eARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
The premise: Half-feral twins emerge from the woods to save their family from the AI apocalypse that they've been hiding from for ten years.
The characters:
- Clo and El are inseparable twins that speak their own language constantly. They don't grow throughout the story, but they are interesting to read it. Not people that I connected to, but definitely entertaining.
- Dyre is their younger brother, who is only slightly less feral than CloEl.
- Mama helped create Yerba City, the AI who drugged the whole world. Oops. She was super-prepared for something bad to happen and has lots of survival skills, which she passed on to her kids.
- Yerba City is set up to be the villain, at least in the beginning. I couldn't take her/it seriously because Yerba is the fictional country in which Tori and friends from Victorious get put in prison.
What I liked:
- The story is told through Clo and El's collective POV. I've never read a book purely in first person plural, and it was a really cool format.
- The beginning is fascinating, with lots of cool images of their camp in Northern California.
- Deaf character rep.
What I didn't like:
- As soon as they journey into what's left of civilization, the whole thing spirals out of control. It was pretty hard to follow the plot, as there are a lot of technical terms to keep track of, and CloEl don't understand them either.
- Lots of plot conveniences.
- The girls' attitude towards sex and consent makes me ~uncomfortable~. The author tries to make the reader think about the importance of consent, but it doesn't really work.
- None of the characters are realistic, like at all. An interesting and fun read, but this sort of book should make me think more, and probably be scared of AI. Instead, I was just confused.
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