Woken Furies: Netflix Altered Carbon book 3 (GOLLANCZ S.F.) - Softcover

Morgan, Richard

4.02

30,423 ratings by Goodreads

9780575076525: Woken Furies: Netflix Altered Carbon book 3 (GOLLANCZ S.F.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575076526 ISBN 13: 9780575076525

Publisher: Gollancz, 2005

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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% 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

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Review:

Woken Furies is Richard Morgan's third noir SF adventure starring combat veteran Takeshi Kovacs, who debuted in Altered Carbon (2002; winner of the Philip K. Dick Award). Kovacs operates in an interstellar future of extreme violence and exotic weaponry, where swapping bodies is as easy as trading in an old car.

The setting is Harlan's World, 95% ocean, where ancient alien orbital systems still vaporize anything that flies too high. Kovacs, older and madder, is running a private vendetta against Taliban-like fundamentalists whose principles--in a world where death is reversible--forced an old girl-friend and her child to die permanently. Wounded and on the run as usual, he escapes by joining a "deCom" squad hunting down human-built weapons systems that don't want to be decommissioned. Soon he's entangled with a woman who (some of the time) seems to be a reincarnation of long-dead revolutionary leader Quellcrist Falconer...

Meanwhile, the dictatorial ruling family of Harlan's World has set the deadliest possible assassin on Kovacs' trail--an illegal copy of his younger self, in a brand-new body.

High-energy complications follow. There's unexpected violence in a virtual-reality monastery. Kovacs and "Quellist" sympathizers plan a crazy James Bond assault on an impregnable island fortress, an attack that ends in a surprise twist. The idealistic Quellcrist (if that's who she is) has the key to a genetic time-bomb never before used: "A whole new form of death." Even those implacable orbital weapons that smite high-fliers with "angelfire" have secrets of their own.

Morgan's knack for grisly set-pieces and heart-stopping violence makes for compulsive reading--emphatically not for the squeamish. Against all odds, his fast-moving choreography of pursuits, escapes, shoot-outs, reversals and betrayals finally ends in a satisfying touch of compassion, a trace of hope. A superior SF thriller. --David Langford

Review:

Praise for Richard K. Morgan

Market Forces

"Morgan is one of science fiction's bright young lights, a crisp stylist who demonstrates equal facility with action scenes and angst."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Forces is turbo-injected with moral ambiguity, Wag the Dog political scenarios, and action sequences fit for a Bruckheimer movie."
-Entertainment Weekly

Altered Carbon

"Compelling . . . immensely entertaining . . . full of duplicitous characters, murky motives, and a detective who's as tough as he looks."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Gritty and vivid . . . Looks as if we have another interstellar hero on our hands."
-USA Today

Broken Angels

"Clearly the work of a gifted, ambitious writer."
-The Washington Post Book World

"A superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure."
-Publishers Weekly
"From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for Richard K. Morgan
Market Forces
Morgan is one of science fiction s bright young lights, a crisp stylist who demonstrates equal facility with action scenes and angst.
The New York Times Book Review
Forces is turbo-injected with moral ambiguity, Wag the Dog political scenarios, and action sequences fit for a Bruckheimer movie.
Entertainment Weekly
Altered Carbon
Compelling . . . immensely entertaining . . . full of duplicitous characters, murky motives, and a detective who s as tough as he looks.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Gritty and vivid . . . Looks as if we have another interstellar hero on our hands.
USA Today
Broken Angels
Clearly the work of a gifted, ambitious writer.
The Washington Post Book World
A superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure.
Publishers Weekly

"From the Hardcover edition.""

Praise for Richard K. Morgan
Market Forces
"Morgan is one of science fiction's bright young lights, a crisp stylist who demonstrates equal facility with action scenes and angst."
-The New York Times Book Review
"Forces is turbo-injected with moral ambiguity, Wag the Dog political scenarios, and action sequences fit for a Bruckheimer movie."
-Entertainment Weekly
Altered Carbon
"Compelling . . . immensely entertaining . . . full of duplicitous characters, murky motives, and a detective who's as tough as he looks."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Gritty and vivid . . . Looks as if we have another interstellar hero on our hands."
-USA Today
Broken Angels
"Clearly the work of a gifted, ambitious writer."
-The Washington Post Book World
"A superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure."
-Publishers Weekly

From the Hardcover edition.

Praise for Richard K. Morgan

Market Forces

"Morgan is one of science fiction's bright young lights, a crisp stylist who demonstrates equal facility with action scenes and angst."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Forces is turbo-injected with moral ambiguity, Wag the Dog political scenarios, and action sequences fit for a Bruckheimer movie."
-Entertainment Weekly

Altered Carbon

"Compelling . . . immensely entertaining . . . full of duplicitous characters, murky motives, and a detective who's as tough as he looks."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Gritty and vivid . . . Looks as if we have another interstellar hero on our hands."
-USA Today

Broken Angels

"Clearly the work of a gifted, ambitious writer."
-The Washington Post Book World

"A superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure."
-Publishers Weekly

From the Hardcover edition.

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