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Takeshi Kovacs Series

This series plunges readers into a gritty, dystopian future where consciousness can be digitized and transferred between bodies, effectively cheating death. A former elite soldier, now a special agent, is resurrected into a new body to solve a high-profile murder in a decadent metropolis. He navigates a complex web of corruption, corporate intrigue, and existential questions about identity and what it truly means to be alive. It's a thrilling blend of hard-boiled detective noir, cyberpunk action, and profound philosophical exploration.

Woken Furies
Broken angels
Altered Carbon

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Altered Carbon

    • 544 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course. But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society. For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.

    Altered Carbon1
    4.1

  2. Broken angels

    • 484 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    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.

    Broken angels2
    3.9

  3. Woken Furies

    • 576 pages
    • 21 hours of reading

    Science fiction. Returning to Harlan's World to achieve retribution for a lost love, Takeshi Kovacs becomes caught up in political intrigue when he comes to the aid of a woman being hunted by a savage young Envoy who claims that he is Kovacs himself

    Woken Furies3
    4.0