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Richard K Morgan

(b.1965)

RICHARD K. MORGAN is the acclaimed author of The Dark Defiles, The Cold Commands, The Steel Remains, Thirteen, Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. His third book, Market Forces, won the John W. Campbell Award. Altered Carbon was recently greenlit straight to series on Netflix.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Series

Takeshi Kovacs
   1. Altered Carbon (2002)
   2. Broken Angels (2003)
   3. Woken Furies (2005)

Black Widow
1. Homecoming (2005)
2. The Things They Say About Her (2006)

Land Fit for Heroes
   1. The Steel Remains (2008)
   2. The Cold Commands (2011)
   3. The Dark Defiles (2014)

Novels

   Market Forces (2004)
   Black Man (2007)
     aka Thirteen
   Thin Air (2018)
   Gone Machine (2021)

Graphic Novels

Crysis (2012)

Awards

	Philip K Dick Award Best Book winner (2003) : Altered Carbon
	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2005) : Market Forces
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (2005) : Market Forces
	British Science Fiction Association Best Novel nominee (2007) : Black Man
	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book winner (2008) : Black Man

Richard K Morgan recommends

The Chains That You Refuse (2006)
Elizabeth Bear
"Elizabeth Bear builds her future nightmare tale with style and conviction and a constant return to the twists of the human heart."

From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain (2007)
Minister Faust
"Faust has pretty much invented his own genre. He's totally original, full of surprises."

The Modern World (2007)
(Castle, book 3)
Steph Swainston
"Steph Swainston's writing is as elegantly superior to most other fantasy as a samurai sword is to a flint dagger."

Wolfhound Century (2013)
(Wolfhound Century, book 1)
Peter Higgins
"Like vintage Miéville, but with all the violent narrative thriller drive of Fleming at his edgiest."

The Freeze-Frame Revolution (2018)
Peter Watts
"The Freeze Frame Revolution is the purest driven high concept SF . . . as vivid and carnal and profane as the headiest of high-end literature."

By Force Alone (2020)
(Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet, book 1)
Lavie Tidhar
"Lavie Tidhar has crafted a punk epic on the mouldering bones of legend and jolted it to life with ten thousand volts of knowing wit and fury. By Force Alone eviscerates the complacent posturing of the Arthurian myth, explodes the well-worn conventions of the tale and from the shiny jagged pieces assembles a wholly fresh rollercoaster ride of cheap violence, vicious magic and messy human truth."

36 Streets (2022)
T R Napper
"36 Streets glows bright and hallucinatory as tropical neon, goes down smooth as warm sake, cuts deep as a nano-steel blade. Napper honours classic cyberpunk with fresh perspectives and hot genre recombinations, a nasty new future gleam, the proverbial new coat of paint. But there are more austere echoes here too, of Graham Greene and Kazuo Ishiguro, of a whole post-colonial literary heritage banging to be let in. In a genre stuffed with facile hero narratives, 36 Streets consistently chooses something else - messy humanity, grey moral tones and choices, hard-edged geopolitical truth. Raw and raging and passionate, this is cyberpunk literature with a capital fucken L. Get it while it's hot!"

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