So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn?t be surprised.Ĭontracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course. 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. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre's world-wide elite.Coming to Netflix in 2018, this must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author. 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. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.Ī 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. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless - and whose dangers are endless.
The extraordinary new novel from one of the brightest stars of British SF takes mankind to the brink of a terrifying secret.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.
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