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English
Miscellaneous
29 January 2025
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world where life as we know it has been replaced by life as it goes on.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.
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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 177mm,  Width: 127mm, 
ISBN:   9781646053520
ISBN 10:   1646053524
Pages:   150
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

After receiving her degree in philosophy, Cline Minard was a bookseller in Paris for seven years. In each of her books, she tries to explore new frictional territory, conducting vital experiences with times, places, voices and bodies, in order to transcend literary forms. She is the author of several novels including Le Dernier Monde (2007), Bastard Battle (2008), and So long, Luise (2011). Her books have been translated into multiple languages. Annabel L. Kim is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the author of two books: Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (2018) and Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature (2022)

Reviews for Plasmas

Winner of the French Prix de l'imaginaire 2022 ""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


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