Generation X: Genogoths

Marvel Berkley/Byron Preiss Productions Prose Novels

by J. Steven York

Commissioned long ago to protect the X-gene--the key to the next step in human evolution--the genogoths are challenged when one of their own flees for her life. Original.

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Superheroes, X Men, Marvel

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Originally hailing from the piney woods along the Alabama/Florida border, J. Steven York has wandered between many genres (science fiction, fantasy, mystery) and points on the map.

Though he now lives on the Pacific shore in Oregon, his current mystery series "Panorama Beach," is set in the sunny Florida panhandle during the 1960s, and its fictional environs are inspired by his real-life ancestral roots there, and his happy visits to the gulf coast when he was a child.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a pretty good X-prose novel featuring some of merry Marvel's most misunderstood mutants, the young Gen-Xers. This one gets a little too convoluted, as a secret government agency and a secret mutant organization (yes, yet another one) oppose one another, with our angsty heroes caught in the crossfire, but if you take your time and pay attention it all comes together in the end. The characterization is well done, and the relationships are well played. As always, Excelsior!