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Binding: Paperback
Fabric Type: 9780575081253
Legal Disclaimer: 0575081252
Maximum Color Depth: Gollancz
Metal Type: Gollancz
Region Code: 480
Total External Bays Free: September 04, 2008
Total Firewire Ports: Gollancz
Gollancz
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Critics have compared Richard Morgan's first novel, Altered Carbon, to the classic hardboiled fiction of Raymond Chandler. The comparison doesn't accurately describe Morgan's second novel, Broken Angels. Morgan's prose never approaches Chandler's metaphoric excess, and Morgan's antihero, Takeshi Kovacs, doesn't wisecrack nearly as often as Chandler's hero, Philip Marlowe. Also, Kovacs's far-future universe is considerably darker than Marlowe's noir world. In Kovacs's universe, high-tech implants called "stacks" record memory and personality; this means soldiers can be sent to their deaths, have their stacks implanted in new bodies, and be sent to their deaths again, and again, and again. Generals needn't quibble about wasting lives in massacres or nuclear explosions. The slaughtered soldiers will soon be back in action--unless their stacks aren't recovered. Then their consciousness will go mad, isolated in an indestructible, inescapable virtual reality. The proper term for the Takeshi Kovacs novels isn't "hardboiled." It's "brutal."
The Martians disappeared long ago, but they left behind their star gates, which have allowed humanity to spread across the galaxy--and bring warfare to the stars. As Broken Angels opens, Takeshi Kovacs is a lieutenant in humankind's most feared mercenary company, but rumors of an astonishing archaelogical discovery inspire his desertion. Humans have never found a Martian starship until, perhaps, now. If the rumors are true, and the ruthless Kovacs can take possession of the unprecedented relic, he will make his fortune. But if he fails in his quest, he may find himself imprisoned in high-tech hell for eternity. --Cynthia Ward
Product Description:
Fifty 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. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink. A 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. 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. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre's world-wide elite.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I just didn't like it as much. I stopped caring what happened a couple times near the end.
Is takeshi's last name a nod to the watchmen?
Rating:  -
This novel had disaster written all over it even before I opened the cover. Firstly, I thought the first book in the Kovacs was shallow in terms of characterization and glaringly obviously aimed at the cinema and the action-hero type of adventure Hollywood loves (and those who like that kind of movie). It was purely testosterone filled, which inevitably led to its lack of grace, prose and sincerity. But, hey! If you like car chases, salty dogs, loose women and explosions then this book may be right ... Read More
Rating: -
Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan is, yet another, strange book! I listened to the un-abridged audio book. This is the third book by Morgan I have listened too.
Altered Carbon was the beginning of "this world". In Broken Angels, we continue with "the world" and the same main character. Morgan has defined a universe of planets with strange technologies. The key technology is that a person's whole "being" (person) is stored in a "stack" (think of it like a memory card). A stack can be moved ... Read More
Rating:  -
The first book hinted at the "Martians", and how they effectively laid out the future expansion of the human race. This book greatly expands on this interesting twist in the cyberpunk idea of future advancements in technology challenging the fundamental idea of humanity. Can man-kind advance to fast, it chokes his very sense of humanity to death?
As usual, Morgan is a highly imaginative writer. Yes, there is violence in the book, but for me it underscored the lack of sensitivity man has begun ... Read More
Rating: -
Richard K Morgan very capably continues the adventures of Takeshi Kovacs in this sequel to 'Altered Carbon'. The plot of this instalment is actually a tad more lucid -- if also a tad more broken -- than the first novel; and the shift from gritty urban detective Takeshi Kovacs to military space-opera mysterious alien archæology Takeshi Kovacs makes for a novel with a rather different (and, to my personal tastes, at least, refreshingly so) feel. The plot lags a bit and snags on a few thorns, but never in a boring ... Read More
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