Clyde's review
Thirteen
by Richard K. Morgan
Clyde's review
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
Clyde's review
rating:
Richard Morgan is the alleged King of Cyber-Punk Science fiction. Note, I said "alleged". This book was heavy with a confluence of many different ideas, which I liked. He specifically focused on if Hunter Gatherers were better than Current man by using his protagonist, Carl Marsalis, a variant 13 from the Hunter Gatherer era pitted against the plotting minds of "Cudlips" the groupthink representation of present day man. This was set 100 years into the future, America no longer exists. The south is called "Jesusland". California is part of the Pacific Rim, owned by China, and the northeast is federated via the UN. What I didn't like about this book was that Morgan at times is too verbose in his description of settings and that puts me to sleep. This needed a heavy handed edit, like my review
