false<![CDATA[Black Man]]>4044813The future isn't what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs - private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero - into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning the Philip K. Dick Award in the process. In Market Forces, he launched corporate gladiator Chris Faulkner into the brave new business of war-for-profit. Now, in Thirteen, Morgan radically reshapes and recharges science fiction yet again, with a new and unforgettable hero in Carl Marsalis: hybrid, hired gun, and a man without a country . . . or a planet.
Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public branded the supersoldiers dangerous mutants, dooming the Thirteens to forced exile on Earth's distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back - and into a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man before a police sting landed him in prison - a fate worse than Mars, and much more dangerous.
Luckily, his "enhanced" life also seems to be a charmed one. A new chance at freedom beckons, courtesy of the government. All Marsalis has to do is use his superior skills to bring in another fugitive. But this one is no common criminal. He's another Thirteen - one who's already shanghaied a space shuttle, butchered its crew, and left a trail of bodies in his wake on a bloody cross-country spree. And like his pursuer, he was bred to fight to the death. Still, there's no question Marsalis will take the job. Though it will draw him deep into violence, treachery, corruption, and painful confrontation with himself, anything is better than remaining a prisoner. The real question is: can he remain sane - and alive - long enough to succeed?1383372book2662007Thirteentotal:800|5:145|4:355|3:206|2:59|1:17|8002972114811822falsefalseWed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008Sat Dec 08 13:41:12 -0800 2007Wed Feb 27 18:26:16 -0800 2008
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Altered Carbon. I think it was the layer of added complexity and the implicit questions the book brought up -- of nature vs. nurture, gender roles, the nature of connection and emotional attachment, and of humanity.
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Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for Altered Carbon (see below), his debut novel, and the author of successful follow-ups Broken Angels (**** July/Aug 2004) and Woken Furies, as well as the stand-alone Market Forces (*** May/June 2005), Richard K. Morgan and his characters are hardly strangers to ...more...]]>
40falsefalseWed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Mar 10 18:43:52 -0700 2009Wed Mar 25 17:57:25 -0700 2009 - this is a very gibson-esque cyberpunk/dystopian view of the near future america, with a rich and detailed environment
- the reveal at the end was lame. Nearly 600 pages and the author uses a character-to-characte...more...]]>
30falsefalseMon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon Oct 12 22:27:57 -0700 2009Mon Oct 19 05:35:43 -0700 2009 Auf der einen Seite ist Thirteen ein typischer Morgan: Eine harte Welt, gebrochene Charaktere, viel High-Tech und vor allem ein brillantes "World-Building" einer Nah-Zukunft, wie man sie schon aus den Takeshi Kovacs Romanen kennt. In...more...]]>
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40falsefalseSat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Jun 23 20:53:05 -0700 2009Sat Sep 19 01:42:03 -0700 2009 I'll probably post a longer review at some other point... but for now just wanted to put in a short review and focus on a couple things raised by other reviewers...
Firstly – Identifying with the main character, Carl Marsalis... Some readers will find it difficult, as he i...more...]]>
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While I had assumed that Thirteen would be another modern science fiction novel, decent without mixing up the formula that has made so many other science fiction novels decent enough to sell well with existing fans but not well enough to actually be noticed, I was pleasantly surprised to see that th...more...]]>
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