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Market Forces

Richard K. Morgan

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

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Title	:	Market Forces
Author	:	Richard K. Morgan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2005 by Ballantine Books (first published March 1st 2004)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk. Thriller

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A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other–in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate armored vehicles and follow a Samurai code. And Chris Faulkner is just the man for the job.

He fought his way out of London’s zone of destitution. And his kills are making him famous. But unlike his best friend and competitor at Shorn, Faulkner has a side that outsiders cannot see: the side his wife is trying to salvage, that another woman–a porn star turned TV news reporter–is trying to exploit. Steeped in blood, eyed by common criminals looking for a shot at fame, Faulkner is living on borrowed time. Until he’s given one last shot at getting out alive. . . .

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Original Title:	Market Forces
ISBN:	0345457749 (ISBN13: 9780345457745)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Chris Faulkner
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2005), John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2005)

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I'm torn between the fact that I like Morgan's writing -- it's slick, tight, packs a punch -- and the fact that his world is just too ridiculously ultra-violent for me, and the characters I like don't come out well. I liked Chris' wife Carla, but of course, she loses her husband in the worst of way: he's not dead, but he's thrown himself into a life she hates, and refused to accept her help in getting him out of it. And he's cheated on her, of course: let's not forget that.I find the

From the Internet Book Reviewhttp://www.internetbookreview.com/201...Its coming up to Christmas, the biggest book receiving (and giving) period of the year for me, so in the month of December I enter into a kind of self-imposed book buying exile. All my friends and family have by now received a list of books Id like, if theyre going to be kind enough to be buying books for me. However, Im not going to stop reading, so I go back to my bookshelf and pick a few books to re-read before Christmas,

Richard Morgans Market Forces paints a bleak, disheartening and fairly believable picture of our society in the year 2049. This is a world where the poor are penned in cordoned zones and keep in check by oppressive policing, dugs and lack of education. Corporations hold all the real power and executives (Zek-Tivs) are held to different legal standards. Not such a stretch is it?The story focuses on the meteoric rise of Chris Faulkners career after his brutal killing of a fellow executive to earn

The fifth star goes for the last 100-150 pages. And because such a fucked up ending deserves them. I mean, that's not a way to end a book if you want your readers to be happy and at ease. But we readers like this sort of literary betrayal, I suppose. Anyway, the main flaw of Market Forces is that the first 200 pages or so are slow (this is not the best adjective, but I didn't find a better one). And by slow I mean that there are too many small things happening, lots of information being thrown

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

Market Forces takes place in a ridiculous near future where investment banking executives control the fate of third world revolutions...and also duel to the death on the highways of England. (Ok, so the IBank stuff is far more plausible.) The story follows the adventures of a young executive named Chris, who I disliked within the first 20 pages, and who became less likable (although occasionally more sympathetic) as the book progressed. In fact, I found most of the characters repulsive.That

Gritty and noirish, a cyberpunk novel that focuses on what happens in the gleaming towers of post-national corporations and leaves Gibson's "street" to a vague, dirty "other place". Richard's command of his craft is clearly evident, making what would otherwise be another noir negative character arc engaging, lively and fun to read.