Woken Furies is the latest installment in Richard K. Morgan's "Takeshi Kovacs" series of novels.

For those of you unfamiliar with the series, the pertinent points are that it's a first person space opera cyberpunk noir set in a universe where people's consciousness is digitized onto a cortical stack, permitting them to be "needlecast" faster than ( Read more... )

I'm a bit embarrassed.

When I went to start writing this, I realized that back when did my Runo Knows... on Broken Angels I had misidentified it as Fallen Angels.  I have no idea how that happened.

Unlike Broken Angels, Market Forces is not set in the Kovacs/sleeving universe of Richard K. Morgan.  Instead, it's set just over 40 years in the future, ( Read more... )

Broken Angels is Richard K. Morgans' second novel, following the adventures of Takeshi Kovacs a few decades later.  Now he's a mercenary in "The Wedge" fighting a war on the planet Sanction IV.  Only brief flashes of his past - such as Ortega from the first book, and his buddy Jimmy De Soto from the Innenin fiasco - are shown.  This book focuses ( Read more... )

I figured I should get through some of these...

Altered Carbon is Richard K. Morgan's first novel.  It's the story of Takeshi Kovacs, a former UN Envoy who has been DHF-ed via needlecast back to Earth from Harlan's World in order to help a Meth discover why he committed suicide, though the Organic Damage division of the local police have flat-out ( Read more... )