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Richard Morgan Takeshi Kovacs books (mostly)

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 03:47 AM

So any of you buggers checkd out Woken Furies yet?
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 11:01 AM

AC is superb. Enjoy!
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Posted 05 November 2004 - 10:22 PM

I read Altered Carbon and liked it.

How many books are there out now? 2 or 3?
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 09:56 AM

Got Altered Carbon recently (on the advice of SM and others) and looking forward to reading it.
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 03:43 PM

I have to be the lone voice of dissent on this one. I found Altered Carbon to be rather ordinary. Perfectly fine way to pass timer on a long journey, but unlikely to ever re-read and probably will be passed on to a friend sooner or later. There was nothing wrong with it it's just that I'm not going to be spending money on Morgan again in the near future. My final opinion: Borrow it from a library or a friend, don't buy. But each to their own.
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Posted 11 May 2004 - 08:06 AM

I liked it as well. As much or more than altered carbon even.
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Posted 24 October 2004 - 03:15 AM

Apparently the next book is a return to Kovacs style hard boiled decetective mode. Pale Gumshoe will be pleased Posted Image
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Posted 08 November 2004 - 02:21 AM

Three.

Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Market Forces.
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Posted 12 August 2004 - 02:08 PM

I was in Glasgow these last two days and deep in the forbidden corners of a bookshop I found...


...A signed copy of Broken Angels!!! Woohoo! Posted Image Naturally I was very pleased with myself, it being priced at normal book price and the signiture being actually hand-done and not just printed on.
This makes my trip to Scotland very excellent as I recieved not one, not two, not three, but four autographs of people I'm a fan of... in a mere two days. Yay!
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Posted 12 August 2004 - 10:46 AM

I hope Woken Furies lives up to the hype. Morgan seems to be on a downward trend with his books

Altered Carbon - 5 stars
Broken Angels - 4 Stars
Market Forces - 3 Stars (far too similar to Mad Max for my liking).

A return to the Altered Carbon style novel sounds just right.
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Posted 22 October 2004 - 12:39 PM

I found my copy of the BA trade pprbk in a clearance book depot. $7.99 CAN. Sweet.

Looking forward to reading it once i'm done with Bakker's two books.

Altered Carbon was brilliant. Mad genius sf, noir style detective, well written action, and Jimi Hendrix. What's not to like?

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Posted 11 August 2004 - 08:59 PM

Amazon UK has a short synopsis for Woken Furies, although the end of it is cut off. Still very cool though.

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This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance.

Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 per cent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything. Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage


That's where the text cuts off. I can't wait for this book.
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Posted 25 May 2004 - 05:32 AM

I actually really enjoyed Market Forces! Not as much as his other books, but still a good read. I thought the ending was killer, wasnt expecting it at all! I'd recomment it to everyone.
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Posted 10 May 2004 - 12:41 PM

Broken Angels rocked! Read it entirely in one day. I have some issues with the book, but I'm not even going to mention 'em, 'cause the book kicks ass!
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Posted 02 December 2004 - 12:13 AM

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Originally posted by Fool:
Three.

Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Market Forces.


Thanks. I'll have to check those out then.
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 02:45 PM

@ Duiker, yeap finished Woken Furies few days ago. Very good, on par with the previous books.
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Posted 02 April 2005 - 10:15 AM

Woohoo!

Finally got Woken Furies. Posted Image

Five chapters in and the body count is already in double figures.

Takeshi is just so damn cool Posted Image
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Posted 06 March 2005 - 01:32 AM

Amazon have just shipped Morgans latest "Woken Furies". As I have 20 odd books to read I suspect this will have to wait for the moment

However it appears to be a return to the original Kovac's character and style of "Altered Carbon"

See here :
http://www.thealienonline.net/ao_030.asp?t...cid=14&iid=2685
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 10:47 PM

almost finished woken furies, bloody book is giving me sleepless nights in anticipation of the finale!!! fantasimo so farPosted Image
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Posted 23 October 2004 - 05:48 AM

I'm liking Market Forces so farPosted Image Its a little similar to some other books, and obviously very different to Morgan's stuff so far, but still goodPosted Image
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