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Jean-Louis Trudel

Jean-Louis Trudel is a Canadian science fiction author who mostly writes in French, but also pens stories in English on occasion. Since 1984, over a hundred of his short stories have been published in various countries and languages, but he has also tried his hand at novels, YA books, poetry, translation, and criticism. Though his background is in physics and astronomy, which he still looks back on fondly, he now teaches history at the university level, most frequently the history of technology.

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Babel's End

"This is how the takeover will happen." "The conquest, you mean?" "Think of it as an expropriation. We will compensate the rights holders and affected parties, such as you." The alien was sitting with me inside a spaceship orbiting Earth. That the creature looked like a smiling…