Georges, Karoline
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1970- ) Canadian artist and author whose first book of sf interest, the Near Future novella La Mue de l'hermaphrodite ["The Moulting of the Hermaphrodite"] (2001) follows the life of a hermaphrodite born through assisted reproduction technology with something unclearly approximating Superpowers, though they are unused in their solitude (see Identity; Posthuman). The story is told as though online. Sous béton (2011; trans Jacob Homel as Under the Stone 2016) follows the life of a small child born and raised on the 5959th level of a Keep, a vast Edifice [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] containing the whole of the world's remaining population; the nightmarish sense that a reductio ad absurdum of Dystopia as a descriptor is being mounted here is relatively unaffected by an absence of sf detail. De synthèse (2017; trans Rhonda Mullins as The Imago Stage 2020) much more specifically sets its anatomy of coerced seclusion in Near Future Montreal; the narrator, forced by a family crisis to confront her agoraphobia, negotiates her transit into the outside world with the help of her Avatar and other entities out of something like Virtual Reality. But her drive towards a deeply austere Transcendence remains central. [JC]
Karoline Georges
born Montreal, Quebec: 22 June 1970
works (selected)
- La Mue de l'hermaphrodite ["The Moulting of the Hermaphrodite"] (Montreal, Quebec: Léméac, 2001) [novella: pb/]
- Sous béton (Quebec, Quebec: Alto, 2011) [pb/]
- Under the Stone (Vancouver, British Columbia: Anvil Press, 2016) [trans by Jacob Homel of the above: pb/]
- De synthèse (Quebec, Quebec: Alto, 2017) [pb/]
- The Imago Stage (Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Books, 2020) [trans by Rhonda Mullins of the above: hb/]
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