Has anyone read
Black Man/Thirteen by Morgan? I just stumbled on a discussion of the best SF of 2007, and several people mentioned it.
I read
Altered Carbon and thought that it was a good book, but I found that it missed some excellent opportunities to deal with some very interesting philosophic ideas (the concept of sleeving and individual identity comes to mind). I left with the impression that Morgan could write well, but that the Kovacs books were more action and plot centered than philosophically thought provoking.
It seems that Black Man/Thirteen may be something a bit different, though, from what I read in the author's blurb:
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An accidentally lengthy meditation on elements of the human condition that the Kovacs books always had the capacity to sidestep – namely, the prison of our own flesh, and the inevitable doom of our own mortality.
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Any thoughts from those who have read it?