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The Departure

2011Neal Asher

0.8/5

Ok, well, my tastes have gravitated towards violent, uber dark sci-fi lately, and this is probably the best one I've read since the Takashi Kovaks novels by Richard Morgan. SOOOOO GOOOOD.A future world where humanity has eaten away the planet, reproduced to unsustainable levels, and a socialist/fascist/corrupt government controls them completely and has plans to liquidate the "stock"? Yes please! There are so many things in this book that seem PROBABLE and real and not so fiction-y. Especially on the tech side. The world building is doled out perfectly, and grows to be completely believable, like this, frighteningly, could be OUR FUTURE. I can't imagine an author being more air-tight in his world building. It's so good.Of course, the main character is an amnesiatic uber-human who is much more than he seems at first, and the grand plan is to take down the government, and there's a subplot on Mars, but MAN is the ride bloody and dark and horrible and perversely fun. The characters are GREAT, a few main ones women, and awesome ones at that.If you don't like people being graphically murdered by robots and other people, this is NOT the book for you. But dystopian fans will enjoy. Onto the next book already, and MAN is it good too!

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