Gen¹³: Time and Chance

Gen¹³

by Jeff Mariotte, Scott Ciencin

Five teenagers brought together, by the covert operations organization I.O. to become the United States government's next generation of super powered operatives: GEN¹³. Unwilling to be I.O.'s pawns, the teens escaped the organization's clutches with the help of renegade agent John Lynch, who soon became their mentor and friend.

But now I.O. has been disbanded - and a dangerous new enemy threatens GEN¹³'s existence. A villain known only as Wager has obtained, on the black market the top secret GEN Factor formula that gave GEN¹³ its powers and is planning ot use it to gain control of the New York City underworld! To stop the growing crime spree that is destroying New York City, GEN¹³ has to find Wager. And that is exactly what Wager wants...

An all-new adventure by Jeff Mariotte, award-winning writer of GEN¹³ Netherwar, The Xander Years Volume 2, and Angel: Close to the Ground, and best-selling writer Scott Ciencin, author of the Dinoverse series and the Vampire Odyssey Trilogy

262 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

Award-winning author Jeffrey J. Mariotte has published more than 30 novels, including horror epic The Slab, award nominated teen horror quartet Witch Season, and the recent supernatural thrillers River Runs Red and Missing White Girl, in addition to tie-in novels and many, many comic books. He is also co-owner of specialty bookstore Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego. He lives in southeastern Arizona.

Also writes as Jeffrey J. Mariotte.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gen13, not as well known as the Marvel or DC super-groups, was a collection of young super-powered folks comprised of the heroes Fairchild, Rainmaker, Burnout, Grunge, and Freefall. They had the usual bouts of angst and antagonism suffered by the Young Avengers and the Teen Titans and the various X-teams, but had a flair all their own that was somehow both more humorous and sincere. Both of those qualities are well-captured in this book; TIME AND CHANCE is one of the text novels devoted to them, and is one of the better of its type. It has very nice illustrations (by Jeff Moy) at the beginning of each chapter as the Marvel novels did, and is a very fun read.

[Jason · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty weak. And the story barely holds together.

I gave it a whole extra star just for having a Fred Olen Ray reference in it.