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Pros
Carl marsalis is a thirteen on earth. The relationship between carl and sevgi was complicated and built well with the caveat of carl's special nature as a 13.
Cons
Characters are transparent, predictable. Most unforgivable aspect is the main character is english. Of course none of the characters have except the ignorant southerners. The aspects of sf are just kind of pasted on to the story as special effects.
Richard morgan's jesusland is a backwards, racist, hate-spewing nation based on religion and the republican party. Morgan's apparent bigotry against christians and middle america should not be rewarded. I just wish morgan would continue strive to be t... Read More
He is written with no location specific speech, vernacular cadence. Mostly he opts to just disfigure and paralyze people. It's like reading something written entirely in effing caps.
There is far less imagination in the 13 universe. The 13s themselves are horrifically dull killing machine. The 'racism' meme about how marsalis has it all bad because he's black is both lazy and *. Thirteen seems content to mindlessly chant those wel... Read More
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Quality
We still havent come to terms with the ideas alive in our lives that morgan struggles with in this well written well thought out book
There are regular spaceships traveling between mars and earth mostly in free fall with the humans in cryogenic sleep due to the... Read More
Clearly like our past peoples basic issues with greed power and tribalism do not change in the future
Carl maralis is the product of such genetic engineering called variant thirteen
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- This product had a total of 2,010 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 22 2023.
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If you put aside a wholly innauccrate prediction for california and other blue states its a good read
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I did not want the book to come to a close
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Nothing that will make you change your view of the world but an ok read
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Genetically modified humans is nothing new to scifi but i havent ran across any where the building material came from the savage hunterkillers that had long since been bred out of the human race
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Carl maralis is the product of such genetic engineering called variant thirteen
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Now im left trying to decide if i want to fork out the cash and jump into market forces the last of morgans novels i have yet to read or take a break long enough to catch my breath first
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Dialogue can be really hard to write well
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Not so long ago men of violence were vilified
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