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The action happens in the nearly derelict arena of our motorway system--an executive playground--since the lower orders can no longer afford petrol. Individual drivers or teams manoeuvre to run the opposition permanently off the road in a Mad Max frenzy, no mercy asked or given. At first, Faulkner has a black mark for taking a defeated opponent to hospital instead of finishing the kill. He won't make that mistake again. After all, the latest management status symbol is the exclusive Nemesis-10 handgun.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Capitalism gone amuck!,
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This review is from: Market Forces (Paperback)
Wow! This is Richard Morgan's first book that does not have Takeshi Kovacs as the protagonist. Like Altered Carbon and Broken Angels this is a fast paced book with lots of action, a great plot, a wonderful mystery and a bleak outlook on the future of humanity. I could not set this book down.Morgan creates a futuristic world where capitalism has gone awry. "Investors" put capital into rebels, governments and arms dealers to fund small conflicts and regime changes. The investors are in such aptly named organizations as "Conflict Investment at Shorn Associates" and "Emerging Markets at HammerMcCol", it's not a stretch of the venture captial or investment banking worlds. The investors then get a percentage of the new governments' GDP, the drug trade or other finanical benefits. Rather than competitive bids and RFPs, each of the investment houses has drivers (analysts) that compete in a driving dual to the death. This is a great read, it made me want to make money at all costs. It is what the anti-globalisation groups are fighting. It's a fantastic (albeit horrible) vision of the future.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite as good as his first two,
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This review is from: Market Forces (Gollancz) (Hardcover)
Market forces is set in the not-too-distant future, a dystopian world where the masses live in relative poverty and a small class of executives lead privileged lives in cordoned areas. Questions such as promotion and landing contracts are settled by strictly regulated road races to the death.The companies make their billions by manipulating third world countries, raising and deposing tyrants and taking a cut of the GDP for their pains. Market Forces bears the burden of having to live up to Altered Carbon and Fallen Angels. Unlike them, it is set in the relatively near future, so there isn't so much scope for mind-blowing gadgets. The plot line is not as gripping as either of its predecessors. Market Forces is not a bad piece of SF in its own right but, if you haven't read any Richard Morgan before, start off with Altered Carbon, then Fallen Angels. Leave Market Forces on the back burner.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Poor effort after two winners,
By Takeshi San (Harlan's World) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Market Forces (Paperback)
First off - I truly enjoyed Altered Carbon and Broken Angels - superb, dense, pieces of hard sci fi that were hard to put down. I didn't like this book and could barely finish it. The storyline was predictable, the writing was below Morgan's usual standard and the political analysis was simplistic to say the least. This actually is not a sci fi book at all but a polemic. The author should spare us the warmed over Chomsky and stick to the far future. I look forward to a return to form.
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