The Silent City

This was a fascinating read. It's scifi, by a woman, and originally written in (Quebecois) French, so it's ticking a lot of my reading interest boxes. It has a dreamy not-from-this-era vibe (originally published in 1981), I kept hearing cheesy scifi synth sounds while reading it, and felt similarities with the mysticism of Dune. It's all the inner monologues, the philosophizing, the interest in emotions and abstract myths. The novel has feminism, cyborgs, complicated incestuous relationships, and is tackling subjects like gender transformations, genetic manipulation, and how to secure the future of humanity without falling into the traps of societal engineering or continuous propagation of violence.

I might try to find the sequel in French.