Pre-Owned Thin Air : A Novel (Hardcover) 9780345493125

from Dokfintong

Richard K. Morgan is one of my favorite authors and I am glad that he has returned to science fiction. That being said, Mr. Morgan is more convinced than I am that large political forces are good narrative drivers. The Quellist theme in the Altered Carbon books brought to an abrupt end what might...

from viking2917

A solid Mars SciFi/Thriller. A return to the Altered Carbon style, if not actual universe. A cynical noir (but I repeat myself), but with utterly convincing world-building about the colonization of Mars and the ugly power structures that come into being.

from rivkat

Veil is an involuntarily retired enforcer for a megacorp, eking out a living on a partly terraformed Mars. He gets caught up in a classic noir scenario as the oversight authority shows up to investigate local government corruption, assigned against his will to bodyguard a sexy investigator chasin...

from ragwaine

3.5 stars. I love Morgan's writing style, it's so gritty and dark and there's so much detail you can't help but feel that he's been spying on alternate dimensions or timelines and just copying down events as they happen. This was probably my least favorite of his books so far (and I've read most ...

from nmele

In which Richard K. Morgan returns to noir science fiction, if that is truly a sub-genre. It's a well plotted book, well written, but perhaps because set on Mars, it reminded me a bit too much of other authors: Philip K. Dick primarily, but also Golden Age stories about the seamy underside of Mar...