Woken Furies: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345499778 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Richard K. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlan’s World forever.Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history.In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlan’s World. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search
He also must fight a hired killer who's a younger version of himself. This book develops a baroque, appallingly complicated setting, full of opportunities for revelation and betrayal. . Both violence and sex are troweled on thickly but appropriately; they have significant consequences for these people who are trying—in circumstances even more desperate than our own—to discover who they really are and who they might have a chance to become. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly In Morgan's powerful third cyberpunk noir SF novel to feature Takeshi Kovacs, whose consciousness is transferred from one ultra–combat-ready body to another in the service of various unscrupulous powers, the interstellar mercenary returns home to Harlan's World, thoroughly pissed and dangerous. Dick Award for his confident first novel, Altered Carbon (2003). To succeed, he has to sift through his past to see which allies
Oedipus Wrecks Alan Ross The prodigal envoy has sleeved home and Harlan's World is awash in violence - nothing new for a planet that is 10% dry land and 90% rebellion. Takeshi Kovacs is back and has scores to settle, scores to kill, and scores to sleeve. Now that he is in the comfort of his home world, Kovacs has assumed a more focused, more mature, and more deliberate persona for his latest vendetta of annihilation and revenge. Troubles soon escalate for him and his colleagues-du-jour. Quicker than you can shoot "angel-fire" he is throttled into an epic conflict between the ancient, the past, the present and the future where ultimate. "Gibson meets Marx" according to ML. Reading the cyberpunk-inspired first third-to-half of WOKEN FURIES is like listening to a late 90s band performing an original song written in early 80s New Wave style. It's catchy, retro, and fun (like Elastica's "Connection"). But it's not the 80s any more, and, like us, Morgan's anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs needs to grow up. For Kovacs, growing up means facing some of his many contradictions; he's part Japanese/part Hungarian, part heartless killer/part bleeding-heart humanitarian, part elite soldier/part low-life criminal, part man of (relative) privilege/part enemy of the ruling elite, and part citizen of the. Eric said Great series. If you ever wanted a post-cyberpunk trans-humanist setting that would make you think, this is the one. This is real science fiction.