Richard K. Morgan (1) (1965–)
Autor(a) de Altered Carbon
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About the Author
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Séries
Obras por Richard K. Morgan
Black Widow [2004] #2 - Right to a Life, Part 2 — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2004] #4 - No Place Like Home — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2004] #6 - Now That's What I Call a Woman (Reprise) — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2004] #5 - A Field in the East — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2005] #3 - Help and Those Who Need It — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2004] #3 - Now That's What I Call a Woman — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2005] #2 - What Do You Really Deep Down Want? — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2004] #1 - Right to a Life, Part 1 — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2005] #1 - The Things They Say About Her, Part 1 — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2005] #4 - Women and Children First — Autor — 3 exemplares
Black Widow [2005] #5 - Do You Feel Better Now? — Autor — 3 exemplares
Takeshi Kovacs Novels Series 3 Books Collection Set by Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels & Woken Furies)… (2020) 2 exemplares
Black Widow [2005] #6 - Welcome to the Game — Autor — 2 exemplares
La trilogia di Altered Carbon: Altered Carbon-Angeli spezzati-Il ritorno delle furie (2020) 1 exemplar
Altered Carbon (Season 1-2) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
A Land Fit for Heroes 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Morgan, Richard K.
- Nome legal
- Morgan, Richard Kingsley
- Outros nomes
- Morgan, Richard
- Data de nascimento
- 1965-09-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Hethersett, Norfolk, England, UK
Madrid, Spain
Istanbul, Turkey
Ankara, Turkey
London, England, UK
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Educação
- Cambridge University (Queens' College|History)
- Ocupações
- English teacher
writer
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Richard Kingsley Morgan, (born 24 September 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy author.
Morgan's books are generally set in a post-extropianist dystopian world. Morgan described his "takeaway" of one of his books as:
"Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a wilful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the majority whom the system oppresses."
He was born in Norfolk, and brought up in the village of Hethersett, near Norwich, and had a semi-rural upbringing. Morgan attended private school and later studied modern languages and history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating he started teaching English in order to travel the world. After 14 years and a post at the University of Strathclyde, his first novel was published and he became a full-time writer. He lived in Glasgow until 2015, when he moved to Saxlingham Nethergate with his wife Virginia and their son Daniel.
Literary career
In 2002, Morgan's first novel Altered Carbon was published, combining elements of "cyberpunk" and hardboiled detective fiction and featuring the antihero Takeshi Kovacs. In 2003 the U.S. edition of Altered Carbon received the Philip K. Dick Award and the film rights were sold for a reported figure of $1,000,000 to film producer Joel Silver, enabling Morgan to become a full-time writer. The film rights were later acquired by Laeta Kalogridis, but production was trapped in development hell for a decade, eventually gaining release in 2018 as a Netflix series.
Membros
Discussions
Altered Carbon em Science Fiction Fans (Abril 2011)
Críticas
Listas
Best Dystopias (1)
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 40
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 19,356
- Popularidade
- #1,125
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 601
- ISBN
- 289
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 4
First graphic novel from Altered Carbon universe was interesting but art was .... lets say weird at least to me. And it was disconcerting.
Here art is much much better. Overall story is for all means and purposes chapter 1, overture for more goody graphic novels to come in the future.
We follow Takeshi Kovacs as he finds himself targeted by police and then incarcerated into max security prison in unknown parts of space (equivalent of modern day black site). In order to make him more vulnerable Takeshi is resleeved in the body of old junkie. Why is this all happening is unknown to Takeshi. As time goes by he leanrs that somebody is asking about Envoy unit (Takeshi's former outfit) for reasons unknown. Only thing known is that unit was last seen executing virus containment operation on planet called Ito. With this single lead Takeshi manages to find who is actually trying to catch him but this will open another can of worms that will push Takeshi to do what he loves the most - go in with extreme prejudice.
From that point on Takeshi is good old himself, proof why Envoys are not supposed to roam the universe unsupervised. As the title says story is about the constant resleeving and (for all means and purposes) immortality (and effects of this on human psyche and behavior). But while some would expect only benefits coming out from this, Takeshi and his opposition show that everything can be used to create Hell on Earth. And here are some very disturbing elements on how to do this.
But as I said, ending of the book shows this is chapter 1 of (possibly larger) story arc. This was little a bit of a let down for me but OK, it is what it is. Even with this minus, book is still sold 4 stars for me.
Highly recommended. I hope new volume will come at least in next 12 months and not 4-5 years :)… (mais)