01544cam a2200301 4500 406154371 TxAuBib 20191230120000.0 190722s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019021614 9781616963163 PAP 16.95 1616963166 PAP 16.95 TxAuBib Tidhar, Lavie. The violent century [BOOK] / Lavie Tidhar. San Francisco : Tachyon, 2019. v, 316 pages ; 22 cm. 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 victory. British agents Fogg and Oblivion, recalled to the Retirement Bureau, have kept a treacherous secret for over forty years. But all heroes must choose when to join the fray, and to whom their allegiance is owed -- even for just one perfect summer's day. 20191230. Violence Fiction. Time travel Fiction. Superheroes Fiction. Mutation (Biology) Fiction. Courage Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Alternative histories (Fiction.) Spy fiction.