{"id":1530,"date":"2005-03-12T20:36:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T20:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1530.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","slug":"richard-morgan-market-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/03\/12\/richard-morgan-market-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Morgan &#8211; <i>Market Forces<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Market Forces<\/i> is very different from Richard Morgan&#8217;s first two books.  It&#8217;s set in the relatively near future (50 years or so), where vast corporations dominate the economic and social landscape, and executives duel each other for promotions in souped-up cars, on deserted and neglected motorways (cars and fuel being far too expensive for the vast majority of the population).  Like <i>Altered Carbon<\/i> and <i>Broken Angels<\/i>, it&#8217;s a very aggressive, testosterone-heavy story, but with the more familiar setting Morgan is free to riff on some more political themes.  It&#8217;s also much bleaker and cynical book than you would think.  Given the number of shots at personal redemption Chris Faulkner, the main character, is given, you&#8217;d think he&#8217;d take at least <em>one<\/em> of them.  But the book is much stronger for not choosing the happy ending and the easy way out.  It makes a poweful emotional impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market Forces is very different from Richard Morgan&#8217;s first two books. It&#8217;s set in the relatively near future (50 years or so), where vast corporations dominate the economic and social landscape, and executives duel each other for promotions in souped-up cars, on deserted and neglected motorways (cars and fuel being far too expensive for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_45_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}