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6.0 stars. IMHO, second only to Market Forces as Morgan's best book and he is one of my favorite authors.
Winner: Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Nominee: British Science Fiction Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Nominee: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ...more
Winner: Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Nominee: British Science Fiction Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Nominee: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ...more
Thirteens were designed to be the ultimate warriors, going to fight the fight where the future "humans" of the book would not fight, being more "evolved" than that. They are hybrids, humans but more, genetically engineered by various countries and corporations, brought up in creche like environments and trained to kill. But then came the backlash and the thirteens were herded into camps or sent to work on Mars so they would not disturb or worse, breed with, "humans". Carl Marsalis is an anomaly,
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