It’s been almost a year since the 5% sabotaged David, an artificial intelligence mandated to standardize humanity. Valide, born from the memories of Christelle and the power of David, newly endowed with a human form, finally tastes the pleasures of the senses. However, in this rumbling revolt, the hybrid being struggles to find its place. Chris Bergeron reconnects with the universe set up in his first novel, Valid (XYZ, 2021), and continues his exploration of the trans experience in a book whose heterogeneous and extremely worked form intelligently matches its subject. With his formidable sense of formula and his keen outlook on the world and the culture that defines it, Chris Bergeron reinvents the story of emancipation to place it in a humanity beyond the framework. Written in a climate where transphobia is becoming more and more threatening, Vandals displays a complexity whose flaws never extinguish the breath of hope and solidarity.
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