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371st out of 430 books
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Clade
by
Mark Budz
IT’S A POST-ECOCAUST WORLD.
WELCOME TO IT.
In the San Jose of tomorrow, all of nature is gengineered—from the warm-blooded plants to the designer people. But even in a rigidly controlled biosystem, with its pheromone-induced social order, the American dream is still the American dream. Caught between these new-old worlds, Rigo is on his way up—he’s going to be part of tomor...more
WELCOME TO IT.
In the San Jose of tomorrow, all of nature is gengineered—from the warm-blooded plants to the designer people. But even in a rigidly controlled biosystem, with its pheromone-induced social order, the American dream is still the American dream. Caught between these new-old worlds, Rigo is on his way up—he’s going to be part of tomor...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
December 2nd 2003
by Spectra
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Mark Budz's Clade lives in the same, refreshing new sub-genre as Syne Mitchell's THE CHANGELING PLAGUE, which is the natural evolution of cyberpunk. Both of these novels envision a future where biologicals determine who we are and what we become in the way that cyberpunk postulated integrated circuits and weblife, or that the Heinlein-Asimov future postulated rocketships and other hard-engineering feats. Those biologicals might be benign or downright terrifying, designed to heal or murder, but t...more
Interesting views of a biotech influenced society but the characters suck and things don't really make sense. Why do people have personal AI butlers who are unhelpful dicks? Why do only the two main characters seem to have them? There are obvious soap opera style backstory twists that are acknowledged as ridiculous and add no value to the plot.
Great ideas, shoddy execution. Bonus points from this local for creating a sense of place in a place not too many authors bother with.
Didn't like it. The author was so invested in creating an alternate world/language/terminology that he forgot that stories need cohesive plots.
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