The Twelve Borodines

How far would you go to change the world? If you had the chance to leave your loved ones behind and disappear, would you do it?

The year is 2054. The artifacts collected in this anthology are all that remain of the Borodines and the Smyrna Association, predecessor of SmyrnaCorp, a secretive conglomerate with questionable practices.

These artifacts reveal a long-lost history which may hold the seeds of a fresh start. The collection takes readers on a journey through anonymity, false realities, disappearance and reappearance; an invitation to delve into a future past through a spellbinding collection of literary and visual works.

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With contributions from Alex Leslie, Anakana Schofield, Anna Leventhal, Casey Plett, Catherine Leroux, Charles Sagalane, Christiane Vadnais, Claudie Létourneau, Daniel Grenier, Dimitri Nasrallah, Dominique Robert, Hector Ruiz, Kaie Kellough, Kiev Renaud, Marie-Andrée Gill, Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Neil Smith, Pablo Strauss and Mary Thaler (translation), Paige Cooper, Saleema Nawaz, Sean Michaels and Zsuzsi Gartner.

With illustrations from Amy Friend, Gérard DuBois and Nina Bunjevac.

Based on a universe imagined by Antoine Tanguay and Nicolas Dickner.

The Twelve Borodines is part of Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination, a multimedia project orchestrated by Éditions Alto and Affordance Studio through their joint venture, Finnegan Motors. It is complementary to the literary video game Inhuman Resources, released in April 2025.

Available in french.