Product Description

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. BLACK MAN 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116024 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 560 pages

DEATHRAY
'Richard Morgan writes pumped-up steroid fuelled cyber punk. This is an unashamedly male, rip-roaring boy's own thriller for the 21st century. If Andy McNab ate a year's worth of issues of New Scientist, this is the kind of stuff he might write afterwards. Black Man is kick-ass SF from the hard end of the spectrum.'

Review
"Since his ferocious debut novel Altered Carbon roared into town, Richard Morgan has been at the forefront of this breed of full-on, edgy science fiction, and his latest tech-noir thriller is also looking dangerously like his best yet. Smart, gripping, and downright indispensable- the search for the best sci-fi thriller of 2007 might just have come to an end..." (SFX )

'Richard Morgan writes pumped-up steroid fuelled cyber punk. This is an unashamedly male, rip-roaring boy's own thriller for the 21st century. If Andy McNab ate a year's worth of issues of New Scientist, this is the kind of stuff he might write afterwards. Black Man is kick-ass SF from the hard end of the spectrum.' (DEATHRAY )

"Brilliantly plotted and unremittingly violent." (Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN )

"BLACK MAN is exciting and extremely violent but is driven by passionate moral concerns." (Lisa Tuttle THE TIMES )

"Richard Morgan has produced a stunning book with this girtty tech-noir thriller. Exciting and thought-provoking, this is destined to be a science fiction classic." (ABERDEEN EVENING EXPRESS )

"There are some aspects of BLACK MAN which are strikingly effective. As always, he writes action well." (Anthony Brown STARBURST )

"He certainly knows how to write a cracking yarn. It grabs hold of you and won't let go." (Dave Golder BBC Focus )

"This is his best since Altered Carbon." (EDGE )

SFX
"Since his ferocious debut novel Altered Carbon roared into town, Richard Morgan has been at the forefront of this breed of full-on, edgy science fiction, and his latest tech-noir thriller is also looking dangerously like his best yet. Smart, gripping, and downright indispensable- the search for the best sci-fi thriller of 2007 might just have come to an end..."

Customer Reviews

Another crackin read
Great read. Just as enjoyable as Morgan's other books. Only one complaint, got to the end, put the book down and picked up what I thought was the next book in the series, "Thirteen". Some what frustrated to find that it was not the sequel but the same damn book with a different name from a different publisher. Oh bother to say the least!

Back on form
Richard Morgan is back on form with this book set in the near future. He is a consistently excellent writer (I did not like however "Market Forces", that aside....)with well developed character storylines. You get to like the central character much as in the unrelated previous novels such as Altered Carbon. A consistent page turner and I cant wait for the next book which is how it should be. As good as Banks with his Culture stories. Fantastic!

Incredible ... breathtaking
No wonder this book won the Arthur C Clarke Book of the Year award ... it is visionary, believable and compelling. I've read this twice in paperback and have now ordered the hardback (not a usual progression for me ... but I couldn't resist having a copy on my shelf that won't fall apart with successive readings. Anyone who enjoyed the Altered Carbon trilogy will be thrilled.