Review (#13): "Guardians of Twilight" (Alkonyőrzők), a novel by Zsuzsa Bartos (Könyvmolyképző, 2016)
By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** Definitely a book I can recommend to be translated into English. The story is set in the far future of 2140. Biotechnology and genome-editing have seen huge advances, just in time to compensate for the effects of a pandemic which made most humans sterile. Designed humans co-inhabit Earth with some of the leftover as well as the ageing populations of the more "traditional" political entities... which are so traditional that successor clones are designed and imported for the wealthy among them -- and these traditional entities need working hands, too, of course, to avoid going extinct. Hybrid servants are designed for the fun of it (lion-human hybrids, for example), as well as hybrid and intelligent pets. The incel movement wasn't so much on the radar at the time of the writing of the book as it is now, but they have their equivalents in the plot in the ...