Maurice G. Dantec

Maurice G. Dantec (1959–2016) was a French-born writer who relocated to Quebec in 1998 and became a Canadian citizen, known for science fiction blending cyberpunk technology with metaphysical and apocalyptic themes he termed "Christian-Futurism." His breakthrough, the crime novel La Sirène rouge (1993), won the 813 Award, but he is best known in translation for Babylon Babies (1999), a cyberpunk thriller about a genetically engineered messianic child, later adapted into the 2008 film Babylon A.D. starring Vin Diesel. He continued the loosely connected Hugo Cornelius Toorop universe with Cosmos Incorporated and Grand Junction. Beyond fiction, Dantec worked as a keyboardist for the punk band Artefact and collaborated musically with composer Richard Pinhas, and wrote philosophical journals on twentieth-century nihilism and technology.