![]() In other words, Marsalis is a throwback to a time when Men were Men, something the 22nd century society cannot handle. Thirteens’ genomes were designed to resuscitate the primitive human male that existed during hunter-gatherer times, when alpha males ruled, and sociopathy combined with aggression had their survival merits. Political statements about the current US through a futuristic caricature thereof? Check.Ĭarl Marsalis is a “variant Thirteen”, a modified human raised in a crèche with his peers to become a lone-wolf, high aggression, low sociability fighter. An uneasy, sexually-charged partnership between a lady cop who plays by the rules and a bounty hunter who doesn’t? Check. Biotechnology that includes genetically enhanced soldiers practicing a Martian martial art and shooting virus laced bullets? Check. Cool tech including AIs of different flavors, weapons, and assorted plug-in-your-CNS-and-get-groovy? Check. ![]() ![]() Saying that would also do injustice to Gibson, Chandler, Swift, the English language and especially Richard Morgan. To say that Thirteen is a futuristic Chandlerian hardboiled-detective-fiction meets Gibson cyberpunk in a Swiftian satire of contemporary USA would be a cumbersomely loaded one-liner describing a no less loaded but sleekly streamlined novel. ![]()
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