Instead, the book reads as a series of episodes.
Throughout the book, Justin refuses to incorporate–in spite of the very interesting arguments to incorporate himself.Īside from Justin’s anti-incorporation stance, there isn’t a major plot arc. Part of a person’s earnings go to the government and the other people who own stock in them. Rather than owning stock in companies, people own stock in each other. But what Justin can’t accept is the new economy. For the most part, he can swing with the nanotechnology, near instantaneous travel, and colonies on just about every planet in the solar system. For a while, Justin, the protagonist, is like a time traveler and has the new world explained to him. The main action starts when a suspension sarcophagus is found and the man inside revived.
In Dani and Eytan Kollin’s The Unincorporated Man the idea of owning stock is transformed into a weird blend of capitalism, social welfare, and slavery.Ī few chapters, hinting at how much time has passed and how much the world has changed, set the scene. One of the things I love about science fiction is that the writers can take small things about our society, extrapolate from them, and come up with fantastically frightening stories.
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