richard morgan

Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-Envoy now working for his own agenda, has returned to his homeworld of Harlan's World on a personal mission of vengeance. During his task he falls in with a gang of freelance mercs assigned to cleaning out the continent of New Hokkaida, where intelligent robots left behind...

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...

A review of one of the most eagerly-awaited books of the year:

I finished Altered Carbon after two days. I liked it a lot, had some real Bladerunner ideas in it. It's a mixture of action/adventure/detective/cyberpunk/sci-fi. Lots of sex and violence. And I don't mean romance and excitment. Although there is some of that also. I will admit that I...

Just finished Black Man by RKM. Quite good, I must say. A considerable leap from Altered Carbon, IMO. As a preface, I liked Altered Carbon very much, though I did find some of the violence gratuitous, and objected to parts of the concept of the digitizable human mind, which I think was...

What do you guys think about this author? Anyone here like Takeshi Kovacs books? I cant be the only liking his writing and his world and specially the blend of Cyberpunk and Noir :rolleyes:

Richard Morgan's latest novel, Black Man, is an precursor of sorts to his Takeshi Kovacs trilogy, set 400 years before those novels in a United States torn apart by religious, political and sociological strife. It is simultaneously a mystery novel, a high-octane action story and a deep...

I've raved about this book before, but never in review form, so... Short version: Ice-cool, razor-smart, eye-gougingly violent sci-fi noir. Long Version: HERE BE SPOILERS! ENTER AT THINE OWN RISK! There’s a great moment in a Discworld book where someone states that only two things are...

Was just wondering if anyone had read any of Richard Morgans Takeshi Kovacs novels and what you might have thought of them?

I picked it up today and it looks quite original and even more interesting. It is a novel of corporate warfare and profiteering in the not-so corporate equivalent set in the early 21st century (though it still smells sci-fi). All I can say after 20 pages, but judging from his other two...