2014-10-28

Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Third in this loose trilogy about the soldier/mercenary/criminal re-sleeved into a new body, this time back on his home planet, and the revolutionary politics he stumbles into.

Disappointing. I enjoyed this trilogy because the scifi future it envisions – consciousness stored on neural stacks that can be installed in successive lab-grown bodies – allowed for discussions of cognition and agency and biology, which I dig. This book, though -- *shakes head*. This is an overlong "gritty" slog, and by "gritty" you can fill in lots of artistically dead women for the purpose of making the protagonist feel bad, and repeated violent set pieces with no purpose but to be violent. Honestly, this read like the shooting script of a blockbuster I would assiduously avoid ever seeing. Blech.

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