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Book review: Man plays God in Sebastian Faulks’s satirical sci-fi
The Seventh Son, set in 2030, may be a little thinner than his historical literary fiction, but it is sharp and gripping, and asks some very big questions
Sebastian Faulks is perhaps best known for his historical novels, particularly the glorious French trilogy of Birdsong, Charlotte Gray and The Girl at the Lion d’Or. He has also penned plenty of contemporary literary fiction, an update of PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series and even a James Bond story which was published on the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth. What he hasn’t done, until now, is write near-future satirical science fiction.
The Seventh Son ...
