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Review: The Steel Remains

By Niclas Lindh
– April 14, 2010

After joining forces to fight a ruinous war to repel an invasion from a race of aliens, the kingdoms of humanity are back to squabbling amongst themselves while the hero of the war whiles his days away in a tiny hamlet, trading his reputation for drinks… Richard K. Morgan is best known for his Takeshi [...]

Review: Thirteen

By Niclas Lindh
– July 29, 2008

Thirteen is a splendid near-future thriller with shades of noir and cyberpunk. Richard K. Morgan has created a complex and unfortunately believable dystopia in which humans are being genetically engineered to function better in certain roles, such as the title’s variant thirteen, engineered to be better soldiers. The plot is well constructed and fast, with [...]

Review: Woken Furies

By Niclas Lindh
– July 6, 2008

Woken Furies is the third installment in Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs saga, and according to Richard Morgan it will be last. If this is so, the series goes out with a bang, bringing together a lot of the world building hints Morgan has strewn around in the first two novels, Altered Carbon, and Broken Angels. [...]

Review: Market Forces

By Niclas Lindh
– August 5, 2005

With Market Forces, Richard Morgan moves away from the far-future trappings of his Takeshi Kovacs novels and instead delivers a more “traditional” cyberpunk novel set in a dystopian near-future where most nation states have collapsed and their functions have been subsumed by corporations. Market Forces suffers a lot from the somewhat silly premise that the [...]

Review: Broken Angels

By Niclas Lindh
– April 30, 2005

Broken Angels is the follow-up to Richard Morgan’s fantastic Altered Carbon [review here] and continues the story of Takeshi Kovacs. A forceful debut like Altered Carbon is a tough act to follow, and in a sense, Morgan doesn’t try. While Altered Carbon was dark cyber punk channeling classic noir detective stories as it explored the [...]

Review: Altered Carbon

By Niclas Lindh
– April 11, 2005

Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon is nothing less than the return of jacked-in, mirror-shades-at-night, in-your-face Cyberpunk. Half a millennia from now, humanity has discovered the remnants of an ancient, vastly technologically superior civilization. Most recovered artifacts from this civilization are vaguely, if at all, understood—among the few things that have been deciphered are star charts leading [...]