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The Violent Century

By Lavie Tidhar
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By Lavie Tidhar
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“If John le Carre wrote a superhero novel about the Cold War, it might be this good.” —Charles Stross
“A torrid tour de force.” —James Ellroy
“Like Watchmen on crack.”—io9

A bold experiment has mutated a small fraction of humanity. Nations race to harness the gifted, putting them to increasingly dark ends. At the dawn of global war, flashy American superheroes square off against sinister Germans and dissolute Russians. Increasingly depraved scientists conduct despicable research in the name of...

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Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay tells a fictionalized account of the partnership between Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the duo behind the first popular superhero, Superman. (Or maybe it’s an adjacent fiction? Superman’s creators exist in the novel, but the titular writing team are from the same milieu.) The novel […]
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