An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre's world-wide elite. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building strong yet sensitive characterisation awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot.

Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless - and whose dangers are endless. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.įifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp's revolution on the planet Sanction IV. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.

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