Takeshi Kovacs Novels

Author: Richard K. Morgan

Do you like your science fiction with overtones of Humphrey Bogart? That's noir, baby. No-one does it better than Morgan. He writes noir-style cyberpunk with the terse clarity edged in sleaze of a cheesy 1940's mystery novel. His novel Altered Carbon is set in a dystopian future that centers around a single protagonist. The series is loosely named after the protagonist Takeshi Lev Kovacs, the Hungarian name for Smith. In Morgan's universe humans have the technology to store their personality and consciousness to be sleeved over a new body. Kovacs is a futuristic spy, soldier, mercenary, bad-guy for hire type of person called an Envoy. He has total recall and no attachment to current political interests and 100% bonebreaking badass. This allows him to get involved in all kinds of mischief. There are three novels in this series. Altered Carbon won the Philip K. Dick Award. Is your lip bloody? The first good taste of cyberpunk is like a right cross to the face. It's painfully good. Go get you some bruises.

Books in Takeshi Kovacs Series (2)

Altered Carbon

Broken Angels