A retractable blade that slides into his wrist. He has an AI buddy that he can subvocalize to. An individual that has been chosen since before birth to be the recipient of a high amount of tech integrated into his wetworks, which allows him to do a whole lot of things that the common man cannot. As I was reading this book, I kept wondering if anything from Thirteen would come into play, but if anything did, it was pretty small potatoes indeed. I read Thirteen a long time ago–back before I was writing for EBR–and wasn’t overly impressed with that one. Technically the story happens in the same “universe” as Thirteen (“Black Man” for those across the pond), although you won’t find anything in this book to really connect it to the prior one in this series except for the type of person the main character is. THIN AIR ( Amazon) is kind-of a stand-alone novel. And when I finally decided to bite the bullet and pick it up, I wasn’t overly surprised by what I found. So, if I’m being completely honest… I put this off for a while. It’s just all sat itself solidly in the middle of mediocrity for us. In general, we here at EBR haven’t been particularly enamored with any of his stuff. So it’s been a while since we’ve had a new Richard Morgan book, yeah? Even longer since it was a science fiction book, as Morgan spent a bundle of time trying his hand at the grimdark fantasy genre with A LAND FIT FOR HEROES ( EBR Archive).
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