Brother to Dragons | Brother to Dragons

At a glance:

Author: Charles Sheffield
First Published: 1992
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrapolatory
Time of Work: December 31, 1999, to late February, 2018
Setting: Washington, D.C., and Nevada
Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, West, U.S., Washington, D.C., Southwest, Orphans or orphanages, 1990’s, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Nevada, Viruses, Hazardous wastes
Locales: Washington, D.C., Nevada

The Plot

The novel tells the story of Job Napoleon Salk’s life, from his birth on the eve of the twenty-first century to his death less than nineteen years later. The first half is set in various places in Washington, D.C., where Salk is born and where he grows up. The second half is set in Xanadu, the country’s oldest, largest, and most dangerous “Tandy” (Toxic and Nuclear Disposal Installation), somewhere in Nevada.

Salk’s life starts out badly and gets worse. His mother is a drug addict, and Salk is born facially malformed, undersized, and underweight. He...

Brother to Dragons | Brother to Dragons

At a glance:

The Plot

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