The Unincorporated Man

Storyline: 2 stars Character likeability: 1 star World building:4 stars American propaganda: -1star Three hundred years in the past a rich man has himself cryogenicly frozen and sealed away somewhere safe. He is reanimated into a future world where every individual is incorporated. Parents own a 20% sto......more

This was a totally original idea made into an interesting story. I really like the concept of being able to incorporate a person. Work hard to try to buy your outstanding shares to thus own a majority and then be able to control your own life. You can never own all as the Government owns a mandatory......more

The Unincorporated Man is an idea story and at its heart it's a good idea forming the basis. The problem is that the novel is plagued with every writing, plotting, and character mistake for which idea novels are known. The gist of it is that a man from our time is awakened after a three-century cryog......more

This book kicked my ass. It reminded me of some of the more intelligent Heinlein that I've enjoyed (Stranger in a Strange Land, Fear No Evil). And it has the political and interpersonal subtlety of Dune. But mostly it succeeds on its own merits: it's intelligent, well written, full of great action a......more

The literary political-social dialectic and is alive and well, and being published by Tor: The Unincorporated Man looks like a political treatise disguised as a pretty good novel. Cleverly, it sets up a conflict with one unfortunate aspect of its ideal Objectivist/Libertarian future society, and in......more