Andy's review
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
This book turned out to be pretty great. Seems to take place in the same timeline as the Altered Carbon series, just much earlier.
The main character is a genentic creation, a thirteen. Thirteens are throwbacks to super-alpha males that humanity bred out around the time of civilization. Tough, quick, paranoid and sociopathic (by human standards) they were created to fight for various nations. They have since been rounded up and either stuck in interment camps or sent to mars.
The main character is one of 4 thirteens who hunt down and recapture or kill other thirteens (they escape alot, and die frequently).
The story is basically him trying to hunt down one particular thirteen who has escaped from Mars.
I think what I like best about it is the supersoldier angle. The thirteens are not really 'super' in any way, but what makes them great soldiers and all is the deferences in their mental processes. They truly think differently than humans, do not make the same connections mentally ...more
The main character is a genentic creation, a thirteen. Thirteens are throwbacks to super-alpha males that humanity bred out around the time of civilization. Tough, quick, paranoid and sociopathic (by human standards) they were created to fight for various nations. They have since been rounded up and either stuck in interment camps or sent to mars.
The main character is one of 4 thirteens who hunt down and recapture or kill other thirteens (they escape alot, and die frequently).
The story is basically him trying to hunt down one particular thirteen who has escaped from Mars.
I think what I like best about it is the supersoldier angle. The thirteens are not really 'super' in any way, but what makes them great soldiers and all is the deferences in their mental processes. They truly think differently than humans, do not make the same connections mentally ...more
