{"id":2326,"date":"2014-04-28T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2014-04-28T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:00:26","slug":"germline-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2326","title":{"rendered":"germline by t c mcarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/08\/08\/blackout-by-mira-grant\/#.U1GNeuZdWtY\">promised<\/a> when I finished {{Mira Grant}}&#8217;s\u00a0{{Newsflesh}} trilogy, I did read {{Germline}} by {{T C McCarthy}}.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to get into the second book of the trilogy ({{Exogene}}), and haven&#8217;t attempted the last ({{Chimera}}) &#8211; but {{Germline}} was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>A quick disclaimer first &#8211; this book is most certainly <b><i>NOT<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>for the faint of stomach, or those who cannot ignore vulgarity.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place in a not-too-distant future, {{T C McCarthy}} takes us into the on-again-off-again underground hot war being fought somewhere in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kazakhstan. We find our main character, Oscar, a journalist\u00a0for\u00a0<em>Stars and Stripes<\/em>, spinning out of control in a drug-induced stupor but getting that &#8220;one last chance&#8221; to earn his place as a journalist. Oscar hasn&#8217;t paid his dues, but\u00a0<em>has<\/em> managed to make friends among the &#8220;important&#8221; players on the US side of the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This book reminded me of a novel I read years ago that took place in the {{Vietnam War}}, written by a vet of that arena &#8211; it&#8217;s visceral, gritty, and the words seem to fly off the page into your eyes, converting your mind into the\u00a0<em>exact<\/em> place and time Oscar is in when he&#8217;s in it. You are there with Oscar as he suits up, plugs-in, shoots-up, crawls through the subterrene with the Marines unit he&#8217;s assigned to.<\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps the single best future scifi I&#8217;ve ever read that doesn&#8217;t require an entirely alternate universe to exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised when I finished {{Mira Grant}}&#8217;s\u00a0{{Newsflesh}} trilogy, I did read {{Germline}} by {{T C McCarthy}}. I wasn&#8217;t able to get into the second book of the trilogy ({{Exogene}}), and haven&#8217;t attempted the last ({{Chimera}}) &#8211; but {{Germline}} was amazing. 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