Morgan Richard Książki

Takeshi Kovacs wrócił do domu. Na Świat Harlana. Oceaniczną planetę, gdzie tylko pięć procent powierzchni wystaje nad niebezpieczne i nieprzewidywalne morza. I gdzie próba wzbicia się nad chmury czymś bardziej zaawansowanym technicznie od śmigłowca kończy się zestrzeleniem przez platformy orbitalne Marsjan. Jednakże śmierć nie czyha tylko w morzach i na niebie. Na ziemi, od tropikalnych plaż i bagien Kossutha do lodowatych, rojących się od maszyn pustkowi Nowego Hokkaido utracone zostały z trudem wywalczone zdobycze quellistowskiej rewolucji. Wszystko kontrolują Pierwsze Rodziny, korporacje i yakuza. Wiedziony pragnieniem zemsty za utraconą miłość Kovacs trafia w wir intryg politycznych i technologicznych tajemnic, które niosą ze sobą zbudzone duchy Świata Harlana i jego własnej, brutalnej przeszłości. Krążą pogłoski, że Quellcrista Falconer powstała z martwych, a na zlecenie Pierwszych Rodzin poluje na nią bezlitosny młody Emisariusz Kovacs, który spędził w przechowalni dwieście lat i nie zamierza dzielić się życiem z wypalonym, podstarzałym i zbrukanym przestępstwami sobą. Wokół jest pełno gangsterów, łowców nagród, sekt religijnych i rewolucjonistów, z których każdy chce uszczknąć coś dla siebie - z czego? Tego właśnie próbuje dojść Kovacs. Wśród narastającego chaosu tylko jedno jest jasne - w którymś momencie ktoś, kto nazywa się Takeshi Kovacs, będzie musiał zginąć. Na dobre.

Compared to Michael Moorcock and Joe Abercrombie alike, Richard Morgan's fast moving and brutal science fantasy reaches its final volume as Ringil comes to his final reckoning and sees the world tipping into another war with the dragon folk. And, most terrifying of all, the prophecy of a dark lord come to rule may be coming true very close to home... THE DARK DEFILES is a supremely fast moving 240,000 word epic. A massive yet tight story that both shines a light on some mysteries from earlier volumes and reveals deeper mysteries yet. We encounter the artifacts of an ancient race, learn the true story of the ghostly Dwenda and follow three old friends as they face their greatest test yet.

From the world of the best-selling trilogy of books and the hit Netflix show comes a new chapter in the ALTERED CARBON universe! In the future, bodies can be changed like clothes, giving life an entirely new meaning--or lack of meaning. Takeshi Kovacs--once a member of the Envoy Corps, the elite, deadly troops of the Interstellar Earth Protectorate--now finds himself imprisoned . . . both in a jail and in an extremely weak body. When he learns that Envoys he served with in a battle he somehow can't remember have been stolen and sold to one of the richest people in the universe, Kovacs vows to rescue them and get revenge. Leaving behind a staggering body count as he blazes across the galaxy, he wonders why he has a hole in his memory . . . and what secrets that gap holds for understanding his future and himself. ALTERED CARBON writer/creator RICHARD K. MORGAN is joined by writer SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman Annual, Batman: Gotham Nights) and artist MAX FUCHS (Halcyon Days) to deliver the original graphic novel ALTERED CARBON: ONE LIFE, ONE DEATH, a violent, galaxy-spanning adventure of prison breaks, political intrigue, and sinister machinations.

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.

Za sto lat na Ziemi zapanowała stabilizacja, a polityczne potęgi osiągnęły globalną niezależność handlową i współpracę. Na Marsie rozwija się kolonia wspomagana nanotechnologią. Jednak dziedzictwo genetyczne z drugiej połowy XXI wieku, w tym skutki modyfikacji ludzkiego genomu, pozostaje problemem. W społeczeństwie żyją warianci, nielubiani i monitorowani. Sevgi Ertekin, była policjantka z Nowego Jorku, pracuje w ochronie korporacji kolonizacyjnych i zna te problemy. Kiedy wariant 13, genetycznie stworzony supersamiec, ulega katastrofie, a w Ameryce dochodzi do brutalnych morderstw, Sevgi odkrywa, że czasem ogień można zwalczać ogniem. Carl Marsalis, również zmodyfikowany genetycznie i były żołnierz, poluje na uciekinierów dla ONZ. Jako zdrajca i zabójca, jest nienawidzony przez swoich byłych kolegów i postrzegany jako potwór przez resztę ludzkości. Po aresztowaniu na Florydzie za pomoc w aborcji, Carl zgadza się pomóc Sevgi w jej misji. Rozpoczyna się niebezpieczne polowanie na mordercę oraz poszukiwanie prawdy o ostatnich żołnierzach ludzkości. To emocjonujący thriller SF, badający uprzedzenia i konsekwencje ingerencji w ludzki kod genetyczny oraz naszą zdolność do przemocy i oszustwa.

Ringil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do. A veteren of the wars against the lizards he makes a living from telling credulous travellers of his exploits. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade. Where he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in lives. Archeth - pragmatist, cynic and engineer, the last of her race - is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the Empire and sent to its farthest reaches to investigate a demonic incursion against the Empire's borders. Egar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad, one-time fighter for the Empire finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe's petty gods. Anti-social, anti-heroic, and decidedly irritated, all three of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world. Called upon by an Empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing. Richard Morgan brings his trademark visceral writing style, turbo-driven plotting and thought provoking characterisation to the fantasy genre and produces a landmark work with his first foray.

In the distant future, the human body is atemporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay. For the interstellar elite, bodies are swappedout and reused without a second thought. You never grow old; you neverdie. However, some bodies are more temporary thanothers ... Takeshi Kovacs was once a member of the EnvoyCorps, stormtroopers for the Interstellar Earth Protectorate, ultra-lethaladepts in switching bodies across the stars. While he served, he was known by avariety of names--Mamba Lev, One Hand Rending, the Icepick--all testament to hiscapacity for rapid response and extreme violence in whatever flesh he wore. Nowhe's out of the service and trying to live a different life. But theProtectorate hasn't changed its spots, no matter what world Kovacs drifts to,and with that old combat rage still burning deep inside him, will he ever reallybe able to walk away? Created by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbonwas previously adapted as a Netflix television series. This original graphicnovel, written by Rik Hoskin (Brandon Sanderson's White Sand/Pierce Brown's RedRising, expands upon the Altered Carbon universe.

It's Earth, 2020. United States Special Forces Major Laurence Prophet Barnes and the soldiers of Raptor Team thought their deployment on the Lingshan islands was a basic covert op against North Korean forces. In a battle that stretches across the solar system and back, can Prophet and Raptor Team stop the aliens and save mankind?