Thirteen

After listening to the wonderful Kovacks series of noir scifi read by Todd McLaren, Simon Vance's multi-faceted British delivery is a bit of a shock. But just as McLaren's tough-guy cynical voice is perfect for the Kovacks stories, Vance makes 'Thirteen' his own story. The characters are fully 3 dimensional - at least the male characters are - and are somewhat more complex and interesting than what Morgan had created in his earlier novels. This story is a little tough to follow in the beginning as there aren't clear breaks between current time and flashbacks or between spoken dialogue and inner thoughts, but its definitely worth listening to.

After listening to the wonderful Kovacks series of noir scifi read by Todd McLaren, Simon Vance's multi-faceted British delivery is a bit of a shock. But just as McLaren's tough-guy cynical voice is perfect for the Kovacks stories, Vance makes 'Thirteen' his own story. The characters are fully 3 dimensional - at least the male characters are - and are somewhat more complex and interesting than what Morgan had created in his earlier novels. This story is a little tough to follow in the beginning as there aren't clear breaks between current time and flashbacks or between spoken dialogue and inner thoughts, but its definitely worth listening to

Richard K. Morgan is kind of hot shit in the sci-fi world these days, but this book does not demonstrate why. At 550 pages, it's a ridiculously long thriller wrapped in a shroud of William Gibson-esque cyperpunk. Morgan has a lot of interesting ideas about human genetic modification in the future, a......more

Total testosterone read. Not that this is all bad, of course, because there's plenty going on in the story to try to buck the trend. Like the main character, an uber-alpha-male if there ever was one, thanks to his Thirteen status as an engineered lot designed to do all the things that a pansified wo......more

Excelentă......more