Book #219 of 2018: Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #3) There’s great potential in the idea of downloading human consciousness into different bodies, but none of the books in this loose trilogy have really lived up to it. This last novel feels especially disappointing, with its vengeance-obsessed protagonist coming across more like …
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Book #135 of 2018: Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #2) This sequel to Altered Carbon is very different from that first book: the genre is more military sci-fi than neo-noir, it’s set on a completely different planet, and the only returning character has been downloaded into a brand-new body. (I really wonder …
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Book #79 of 2018: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #1) This hardboiled science-fiction novel is rich in premise and atmosphere, and I’m looking forward to seeing what the recent Netflix adaptation has done with both. The story is a fairly straightforward noir investigation — and unfortunately comes with the oversexualization of women …
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