Take your chances with fun, pulpy Version 43
Charming gangsters, lots of gun-fighting, and one insufferable robot cop: Version 43, Philip Palmer’s latest, is a cracker-jack pulp-noir deep-space blast. Far-future Earth is a peaceful place, with little crime and few anti-social personalities. That’s because whenever someone commits a serious offense, they’re offered a shot at a new life on the distant planet of…