Black Man (Gollancz S.F.) [Paperback]

"This is writing with the brakes off and the adrenaline pumped to high." (Liz Holliday SCI-FI NOW )

"Brilliantly plotted and unremittingly violent." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"Since his ferocious debut novel Altered Carbon roared into town, Richard Morgan has been at the forefront of this breed of full-on, edgy science fiction, and his latest tech-noir thriller is also looking dangerously like his best yet. Smart, gripping, and downright indispensable- the search for the best sci-fi thriller of 2007 might just have come to an end..." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"BLACK MAN is exciting and extremely violent but is driven by passionate moral concerns." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"Richard Morgan has produced a stunning book with this girtty tech-noir thriller. Exciting and thought-provoking, this is destined to be a science fiction classic." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"There are some aspects of BLACK MAN which are strikingly effective. As always, he writes action well." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"He certainly knows how to write a cracking yarn. It grabs hold of you and won't let go."
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"This is his best since Altered Carbon." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy . . . Genetically engineered alpha males, designed to fight the century's wars have no wars to fight and are surplus to requirements. And a man bred and designed to fight is a dangerous man to have around in peacetime. Many of them have left for Mars but now one has come back and killed everyone else on the shuttle he returned in. Only one man, a genengineered ex-soldier himself, can hunt him down and so begins a frenetic man-hunt and a battle survival. And a search for the truth about what was really done with the world's last soldiers. BLACK MAN is an unstoppable SF thriller but it is also a novel about predjudice, about the ramifications of playing with our genetic blue-print. It is about our capacity for violence but more worrying, our capacity for deceit and corruption. This is another landmark of modern SF from one of its most exciting and commercial authors.

Richard Morgan is 40 and was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. He lives, with his wife, in Glasgow.