Thirteen by Morgan

April 8, 2009

I finished Thirteen, by Morgan: Dystopic Future, genitically modified humans, Mars, cannibalism, what more could you  ask for?  Morgan is adept at creating a dystopic vision of the all-too-near future.  The issue of racism is recast here as a sort of xenophobia describing ongoing tension between “13’s” who are genetic variations of modern humans – essentially the original hunters in the hunter/gather equation – and their “femanized” descendents, us.  Morgan creates and fills out a whole mythology here and gives the moster a soul.  Brilliant book.

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