A fascinating counterpart to BAM's Gene(sis) exhibition, Black Jack takes place in a future in which humanity is fixated on genetic engineering and body-enhancing super-drugs, and medical science experiments with what might be new species. The mysterious Black Jack lives above the law as a “medical pirate”; the world's finest surgeon, he saves the dying from death and asks top dollar for his troubles. He is called upon to help decipher the riddle of a new “breed” of athletes, Olympians whose perfect bodies go beyond ordinary human skills and who, in fact, may not be “human” at all. Written in the 1970s, Black Jack was then famous for its graphic portrayal of medical science and its realistic depictions of the human body (in all its extremes); now, like all great science fiction, it is interesting for predicting certain elements of “the future” that have almost come to pass.