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Sto caricando le informazioni... Market Forces (edizione 2005)di Richard K. Morgan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Another strong delivery from Richard Morgan. A stand-alone novel that works wonders when it comes to the anti-capitalist satire. The story is brutal and enjoyable thanks to Morgan’s cocky and cynical writing. I was expecting even more twists in the plot but that is already a solid thriller as it is. The mix of thriller, international finance and light cyberpunk just clicks and I would love more stories to be written in that genre. Morgan has managed to carve out his own niche in the SF world. ( ) Chris Faulkner es un joven y prometedor ejecutivo que se ha labrado la reputación trabajando en Mercados Emergentes y ha llamado la atención de los cazatalentos de Shorn Associates, que lo contratan en su división estrella: Inversión en Conflictos. Y en el nuevo puesto, las directrices son inequívocas: «En todo el mundo, hombres y mujeres siguen encontrando causas por las que matar y morir. ¿Quiénes somos nosotros para discutírselo? Decidir si es correcto o incorrecto no es nuestro cometido. En Inversión en Conflictos de Shorn Associates sólo nos hacemos dos preguntas: ¿Ganarán? Y en tal caso, ¿pagarán? No juzgamos; no moralizamos; no malgastamos. Nosotros calculamos, invertimos. Y prosperamos.» The rising power of corporations has been a strong theme in SF since the '80s. It was a key element in cyberpunk and it's central to this novel. This isn't cyberpunk, though - cyber is largely irrelevant, certainly not a key theme or even an important part of the world building. Instead, Morgan extrapolates the trends of corporate power in the international political arena (in fairly conventional ways) and innovates by doing the same for corporate internal politics. These ideas are extreme and hopefully preposterous. I found it to be a compelling read in that it's full of incident and yet, and yet...the actual plot develops slowly, is a little too predictable and our protagonist isn't a hero. Not even an anti-hero. Just an asshole. Which made it difficult to care - much like Kovac in the sequels to Altered Carbon. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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What do you buy and sell when the global markets reach saturation point? The markets themselves. Thirty years from now the big players in global capitalism have moved on from commodities. The big money is in conflict investment. The corporations keep a careful watch on the wars of liberation and revolution that burn constantly around the world. They guage who the winners will be and sell them arms, intelligence and power. In return for a slice of the action when the war is won. The reward? A stake in the new nation. It's cynical, brutal and it has nothing to do with democracy and the rule of law. So what else is new? The executives in this lethal game bid for contracts, fight for promotion, secure their lives on the roads. Fighting lethal duels in souped up, heavily armoured cars on the empty motorways of the future. Chris Faulkener has a lethal reputation and a new job at Shorn Associates. Has he got what it takes to make a real killing? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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