7.8 /10 1 Votes
Country Great Britain Publication date 17 May 2007 Awards Arthur C. Clarke Award | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Originally published 17 May 2007 Publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Pages 560 pp (Hardcover)
546 pp (Paperback) ISBN 0-575-07513-9 (UK Hardcover)
ISBN 0-575-07813-8 (UK Paperback)
ISBN 0-345-48525-4 (US Hardcover) Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Nominations Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Similar Richard Morgan books, Arthur C Clarke Award winners, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Man (published as Thirteen in North America) is a 2007 science fiction novel by the English author Richard Morgan. It won the 2008 Arthur C Clarke Award. It is not part of the Takeshi Kovacs universe by the same author.
Plot
Carl Marsalis is a selectively bred human ("genetic variant") known as a "Thirteen", characterized by high aggression and low sociability. Bred to serve in a military capacity, Thirteens were later confined on reservations or exiled to Mars. Carl, having won by lottery the right to return from Mars, works covertly, tracking down renegade Thirteens.
References
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