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Exogene (n.): factor or agent (as a disease-producing organism) from outside the organism or system. Also: classified Russian program to merge proto-humanoids with powered armor systems (slang).
Catherine is a soldier. Fast, strong, lethal, she is the ultimate in military technology. She's a monster in the body of an eighteen year old girl. Bred by scientists, grown in vats, indoctrinated by the government, she and her sisters will win this war, no matter the cost.
And the costs are high. Their life span is short; as they age they become unstable and they undergo a process called the spoiling. On their eighteenth birthday they are discharged. Lined up and shot like cattle.
But the truth is, Catherine and her sisters may not be strictly human, but they're not animals. They can twist their genomes and indoctrinate them to follow the principles of Faith and Death, but they can't shut off the part of them that wants more than war. Catherine may have only known death, but she dreams of life and she will get it at any cost.
- Sales Rank: #1315857 in Books
- Brand: McCarthy, T. C.
- Published on: 2012-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 1.25" w x 4.25" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 400 pages
Review
Former CIA analyst McCarthy delivers a stark and wrenching sequel to Germline. The conclusion is simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant, and utterly appropriate for the brutal, bloody, and magnificent story. One of the ten best SFF novels for Spring 2012. -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
McCarthy does an excellent job of building and presenting Catherine [the protagonist]. The gritty realities of the futuristic conflict Cathering participates in, leads, and navigates may shock readers...getting to know Catherine is worth your time. -Victoria Frerichs, RT Book Reviews
It's not just good...it's the mil-sf book I wish I could send back in time to beat out Forever War for a Hugo. I never would have guessed McCarthy was an analyst...I was sure he'd been on the pointy end for a long time. - Ernest Lilley, SFRevu (Reviewer Emeritus), on Germline
"McCarthy captures a fascinating mix of naïveté and ruthlessness...this exciting and thoughtful story marks McCarthy as one of sci-fi's most promising new talents." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant."―Publishers Weekly
"This exciting and thoughtful story marks McCarthy as one of sci-fi's most promising new talents."―Kirkus Reviews
"A fascinating creation... Exogene is both disorienting and an effective portrayal of a protagonist with a broken mind"―The Guardian
About the Author
T.C. McCarthy earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia, and a PhD from the University of Georgia, before embarking on a career that gave him a unique perspective as a science fiction author. From his time as a patent examiner in complex biotechnology, to his tenure with the Central Intelligence Agency, T.C. has studied and analyzed foreign militaries and weapons systems. T.C. was at the CIA during the September 11 terrorist attacks, and was still there when US forces invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, allowing him to experience warfare from the perspective of an analyst.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
The second Subterrene War novel
By TChris
Germline, the first novel of The Subterrene War series, told the story of a journalist who became a part of the war he was covering, participating in battles and growing emotionally attached to genetically bred female soldiers called Germlines. In Exogene, the second novel in the series, the focus is on one of the Germlines, a genetic named Catherine. "Faith and death" is the genetic creed. Combat is a test of faith; death is the welcome reward, the entrance to a promised afterlife. Yet the reality of war changes people, even people who have been nurtured in vats and programmed to kill.
Catherine is a perfect killer. At 16 1/2, she is the finest genetic soldier ever produced in America. Yet Catherine begins to feel an unnatural (for a genetic) will to survive, a fear of death that may or may not be an early onset of the "spoiling" that awaits her at the end of her service. We know from the first novel that Germlines begin to rot away when they turn eighteen. We also know that despite being conditioned to accept that fate (while craving a more meaningful death on the battlefield), genetics occasionally try to run, to escape the war before reaching their expiration date, an effort that will prove to be futile -- or so they are told by their human creators.
Catherine's story initially centers on her attempt to escape her makers and her engineered fate. She eventually falls into the hands of male genetics bred as Russian soldiers. The Russians are working on something new -- an Exogenic Enhancement, a hybrid of human and machine -- and who knows what the Chinese are doing (not to mention the Koreans). Hating Americans and Russians about equally, Catherine must make a choice about her future, and it is that choice that drives the novel's second half. Since Catherine is handicapped by hallucinations in the form of flashbacks as her mind begins to erode, the second half blends Catherine's present with snatches of her gritty past. Yet as the story unfolds and as Catherine's conception of her purpose evolves, we begin to suspect that Catherine's moments of superficial clarity are unhinged from reality. Whether due to spoiling or the drugs she was given or religious rhapsody, Catherine sometimes seems a tad crazy. That, of course, makes her an interesting character.
While T.C. McCarthy writes combat scenes that are as vivid and exciting as nearly any I've encountered in military science fiction, he also writes with poignancy that is too often missing from the genre's war stories. McCarthy imbues his characters with greater depth than is common in action-driven stories. His vision of the future is interesting and more credible than most military sf novels I've read.
McCarthy makes impressive use of religion as the force that motivates the Germlines. The belief that killing is the path to salvation is a common feature of religious zealotry, a point that has been made often enough in fiction, but McCarthy takes it a step beyond the ordinary: What happens when a zealot begins to suspect that she is not serving God but is killing to serve secular masters? Or, in terms of McCarthy's story, what happens when a genetic begins to worry that she is not a perfect instrument of God, but a flawed creation of man? When a genetic who is conditioned to hope the war will never end begins to long for -- not exactly peace, but a chance to kill on her own terms, to destroy an enemy of her own choosing? There is something both intellectually and emotionally engaging about Catherine's redefinition of her life's purpose. Perhaps Exogene is about the true meaning of freedom (nothing left to lose?) but I think its meaning is open to other interpretations, particularly in light of an unexpected ending that made me question my understanding of Catherine. That's one of the things I like about Exogene and Germline: the novels work as high energy action stories but they operate on other levels as well, giving the reader political and philosophical meat to chew upon.
I felt for the journalist in Germline more deeply than I connected with Catherine, but I think Exogene is in many ways a more cohesive work than its predecessor, and the better of the two novels, albeit only slightly. Both are worth reading, and I look forward to the next installment. I would give Exogene 4 1/2 stars if that option were available.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Very good second novel that stands on its own
By Justin Landon
Most who read T.C. McCarthy's debut novel, Germline, called it military science fiction. After all, it's a story about a guy serving in the military in a future war. Under that basic definition, I suppose it is. Yet, because of the narrator's point of view, it lacks tactical or political awareness and eschews scientific understanding of the postulated advances. Told through the filter of Oscar Wendell, an individual so self absorbed (and high) that he rarely relates to the reality around him, Germline is the harrowing psychological coming of age story of a narcissistic drug addict seeking to justify his existence.
I was a big proponent of Germline and have worried a bit over how McCarthy would approach the second novel. Would it be a continuation of the first? A departure? With a first novel that was so bleak, who would want to read, or write, that kind of novel again? Exogene, McCarthy's second installment in his Subeterrene Trilogy, feels like a response to Germline, with more traditional genre markers couched in an undeniably hopeful quest to find humanity.
The hopeful questor is Catherine, a genetically engineered American soldier. She's fast, strong, and lethal -- the ultimate in military technology. In other words, she's everything Oscar Wendell isn't. Called Little Murderer by her sisters, she's a weapon in the body of a teenage girl taught to kill for her God, with her death the only avenue to paradise. If she manages to survive her two years of service on the front lines, she'll be decommissioned and shot. She isn't entirely human, but it doesn't mean she doesn't want to live. Rumor has it Thailand holds a refuge for the genetically maimed and Catherine will do almost anything to get there.
Demonstrated in Germline, and confirmed in Exogene, McCarthy possesses an uncommon knack for getting inside his narrators' heads, plumbing their depths, and compelling his reader to empathize. Where in Germline the prose often came across as self-indulgent and confused (from a drug addled journalist? no way!), the prose in Exogene is colder and more precise, with a hint of things coming apart at the seams. McCarthy takes full advantage of the first person narration, writing with a brilliance not for story telling, but for living inside his narrator's head. And he does it as well as any author I've ever read.
Ultimately though, that same success is a bit of a problem. Catherine, for all her good points, just isn't as compelling as Oscar. There's less of a frenetic pace to the novel, and her general disposition is far too fearless for me to ever to truly hold her at risk. Combined with her inhumanity, on which she frequently reflects, I found myself with a psychic and physical distance from her that I'm not sure McCarthy intended. The result of that trade off is a far more coherent and cohesive narrative that tells a traditional behind-enemy-lines military story, but lacks the verve of his debut.
Chronologically the novel jumps back and forth between Catherine's flight from the U.S. military and her early years learning to make war in God's name. Woven into this narrative is a broader look at the world McCarthy has built. He paints a disturbing picture that's all too imaginable given the instability in North Korea and the tumultuous relationship between the U.S. and Asia. His technology is advanced beyond current standards, but not so far that it requires a great deal of exposition. There's a general awareness that genetic modification isn't far off, and the work being done in robotics and nerve splicing is incredible. In those ways, McCarthy's Subterrene Trilogy has something of a ripped from the headlines feel, or at least as much as possible given unreality of it all.
There's also a natural connection to be drawn between the genetically engineered American soldiers and the western perception of the "jihadists". Some may find this comparison distasteful, drawing some conclusion that McCarthy is identifying jihadists as some form of unthinking, programmed monsters who kill indiscriminately for God. I don't think that's the intent. Rather, McCarthy points out the difficulties -- and inhumanity -- in any belief system built around subverting the basic desire for survival and doing it in God's name. By the novel's conclusion I found myself invested in the discussion on life and death and faith, and more importantly in Catherine's connection to it.
While McCarthy embraces more military and science fiction and less Hunter S. Thompson, Exogene still depends heavily on the reader's empathy for Catherine. I empathized, but was also left wanting, remembering the raw emotional power of Germline. However, in that power vacuum exists a much smoother narrative, which results in a novel that will endear Exogene to a broader group of readers even if it receives less "critical praise".
Despite my relatively small complaints, McCarthy remains an author I recommend everyone read. Exogene is no different in that regard, and makes for a thought provoking companion piece to his visceral first novel. I'm excited to see how he ties it all together in the final volume, Chimera, due out this summer.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Different eyes, different voice, different novel
By Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Read by Bahni Turpin for Blackstone Audio and released concurrently with the mass market and e-book from Orbit, Exogene sets up as a much more traditional military sf novel than did the author's debut, 2011's Germline. Germline was read by Donald Corren, and was a drug-addled war journalism narrative, glossing a bit over technical details whether of weaponry, mech suits (other than detailing a bit of the waste system), or of the eponymous genetic engineering.
Here, Exogene shares only the setting -- a near future war over mineral resources in Kazakhstan and its surrounds -- and a first person perspective. The voice has changed, as has the narrator's attention to technical detail. Turpin shows us the Subterene War from the point of view of Catherine, one of the genetically-engineered soldiers used by the United States and its allies. We find out some technical details of her flechette rifle such as its capacity, speed, and firepower. We find out more about the science and psychology and training behind the Germline project, and the lives, loves, and losses of women who were more shallowly perceived by the aforementioned drug-addled male journalist in the first book. This is not to say that there aren't a few missteps: in the first quarter of the audiobook, some post-production artifacts remain from re-recordings for corrected pronunciations, though they aren't too distracting. And for my money, though this was admittedly a review copy, some of the emotional impact of these losses don't appear fully realized or felt. (Though, again, there are drugs and psychological conditioning at work.) But overall Turpin does a quite capable job here of bringing the "girls" (16-18 year olds) to a richer life, amidst a wider and richer cast of characters than inhabited the close quarters of Germline. Turpin's turn at Russian (and other accents) are mostly well done, easily besting recent attempts from other non-native narrators (Malcolm Hillgartner's forgettable tries at Russian, Hungarian, and Chinese accents in Neal Stephenson's Reamde for example) though at times the closing words of sentences lose their flavor. It's a good thing Turpin can handle her Russians, because we see quite a few of them, and hear a fair bit of Russian along the way towards discovering what it is the Russians are up to, exogentically. (If you're guessing "exoskeleton", you're on the right track.) While Germline spent quite a bit of the capital of sf ideas for the world of the Subterrene War and had a more unique voice, Exogene sees McCarthy come a bit more into his powers of plot, and already leaves me wondering on where he'll go with the trilogy's conclusion, Chimera, due out in August.
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