Seb Doubinsky
Seb Doubinsky is a French bilingual writer, born in 1963 in Paris. He has published more than fifteen novels and six poetry collections in France, the UK, and the USA. He currently lives and teaches in Aarhus, in Denmark, with his wife and their two children.
Like all speculative fiction and noir novels, Distress Cries of Animals has a specific setting, which is New York at an undisclosed date in the future, submerged because of climate change. It is divided into a lower part, which is close to the water and poor, and an upper-part, where the 1 percent have settled. To travel between districts, you have to use naval transportation, just like in Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières’s 1970 “Valérian and Laureline” comics The City of Shifting Waters.
