Thirteen
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Thirteen
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Narrated by:
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Simon Vance
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By:
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Richard Morgan
About this listen
This title was previously published in 2018 with the original title, 'Black Man'
One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy ...
Genetically engineered alpha males, designed to fight the century's wars have no wars to fight and are surplus to requirements. And a man bred and designed to fight is a dangerous man to have around in peacetime. Many of them have left for Mars but now one has come back and killed everyone else on the shuttle he returned in.
Only one man, a genengineered ex-soldier himself, can hunt him down and so begins a frenetic man-hunt and a battle survival. And a search for the truth about what was really done with the world's last soldiers.
THIRTEEN is an unstoppable SF thriller but it is also a novel about predjudice, about the ramifications of playing with our genetic blue-print. It is about our capacity for violence but more worrying, our capacity for deceit and corruption.
This is another landmark of modern SF from one of its most exciting and commercial authors.
Read by Simon Vance
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Almost like a altered carbon prequel
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When the book came out, some critics cited this idea as extreme and unrealistic.
But reading the book today, in the light of Trump, detention centres for children and everything that has happened, it seems all too plausible.
This book does what great science fiction should do. Uses a plausible what-if scenario as a lens to examine the world today.
It's also a pretty thrilling detective yarn.
Was not thrilled by the narration, which had the (anti) hero, Marsalis sound like a London cab driver, and some of the South Americans sound like they were auditioning for the role of Count Dracula.
Dark and prescient.
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one reviewer didn't like the graphic way in which sex was described in the book, but honestly, there's not that much and it's not a reason to avoid the book or mark it down.
I'd have liked the themes to have been woven more subtly onto the narrative rather than wading through what is essentially exposition for the first half of the book before the story really starts.
I've enjoyed Richard Morgan's other books more, but I'd recommend this to folk who've enjoyed his other work. just don't expect something on the level with Altered Carbon and it's sequels.
interesting but uneven
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Fantastic
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it's only a matter of time
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Great story.
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Very complicated!
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The only thing to say is that the plot and the narrative was at times tricky to follow if you did not pay it full attention (driving and listening etc.).
Tricky but good
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Just too many bad sex interludes
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