Loved you review man, im about 1/4 of the way thru, its great so far, and i found myself laughing at your connections to the book. No spoilers either which i was kind of worried about.
Also try the Polity series (4 books in total now) written by Neal Asher. Similar writing style to R. Morgan with a little more of an epic, large scale feel to it (Due to the galactic war following throughout the storyline) Another dark, polluted, heavy action, viceral, mind bender that will keep you wanting more. (any thing from neal asher is actually quite good quality) The've held a place on my shelf next to Ian M Banks Culture novels.
I just finished 'The Steel remains' ( Im not usually into fantasy, however this was an exeption) and natually loved ever miniute of it. I liked his previous work better. Reading Dan Simmons Illium and olympos (on the latter) so if you ever feel like blowing your brain out through your eyes,,, Give it a try. Very different style, MOST DEFINATLY a must read for any science fiction fan... really... it will blow your mind... really
Well more than a year later.... I would have to say that this trilogy had to have been the best i've read... ever
The divercity of Tak's surroundings and situations from each novel (a private investigator on earth to the captain of an elite covert ops squad...so on so forth) Kept me glued from one novel to the next. Its nice to see others loving R. Morgans gritty tales of a dirty, horrifying, BELIEVABLE future, as much as I did.
If you havn't read his novel "13 / Black man" do so now.
Thirteen (since im in the US) was pretty damn good too. I put it over Market Forces when Im recommending Morgan's books to friends. He just released a fantasy noir novel this year that i havent read yet. Think D&D only gritty and harsh like his other works. Im looking forward to reading it
I just started reading this a few days ago and I'm about two hundred pages in, and it's amazing. And I love the fact that there's not FTL. I love star wars, but every time I watch it, I can't get relativity out of my mind. I always see time traveling back and killing the enemy as a solution. Maybe I'm weird, but it ruins some of it for me. And Miriam Bancroft sounds incredibly hot for somebody that's 350 years old. I'd hit that.
Takeshi Kovacs is the toughest motherf*cker ever! Altered Carbon was a gem of a book. I just randomly picked it up last year and i just couldn't put it down.
Richard Morgan sold the rights to Hollywood a few years back and the film should be coming out in early 2010.
even though they dont have true FTL capability they make up for it with "needlecast" data transmission. they can sent data at FLT speeds and can therefore send a digitized human somewhere then "resleeve" them in a new body.
its an interesting way of getting around the FTL issue. its no different than having to clear gravity wells and such for more traditional FTL solutions
how do you know it's 500 years in the future? i read the books but i don't remember that at all.
myztic123 1 year ago
Solid review dude..
I'm a HUGE! Richard K. Morgan fan.. read all his books..
from market forces to steele remains and of course all the kovach trilogy
BLACKMAN in my opionion is his MASTERPIECE <-- this book is just amazing...
YAAY i feel i was able to connect with someone.
keet it up bro
spal01 1 year ago
I have a question since I am currently reading the book. When people get "sleeved" where do the new bodies come from for people to be "sleeved" into?
KazuoKiriyama666 1 year ago
Loved you review man, im about 1/4 of the way thru, its great so far, and i found myself laughing at your connections to the book. No spoilers either which i was kind of worried about.
Over all great review!
Thanks alot
IndieRio 1 year ago
Also try the Polity series (4 books in total now) written by Neal Asher. Similar writing style to R. Morgan with a little more of an epic, large scale feel to it (Due to the galactic war following throughout the storyline) Another dark, polluted, heavy action, viceral, mind bender that will keep you wanting more. (any thing from neal asher is actually quite good quality) The've held a place on my shelf next to Ian M Banks Culture novels.
madgrav 2 years ago
I just finished 'The Steel remains' ( Im not usually into fantasy, however this was an exeption) and natually loved ever miniute of it. I liked his previous work better. Reading Dan Simmons Illium and olympos (on the latter) so if you ever feel like blowing your brain out through your eyes,,, Give it a try. Very different style, MOST DEFINATLY a must read for any science fiction fan... really... it will blow your mind... really
like really, really RREAALLY!
( I cant stress that enough)
madgrav 2 years ago
Well more than a year later.... I would have to say that this trilogy had to have been the best i've read... ever
The divercity of Tak's surroundings and situations from each novel (a private investigator on earth to the captain of an elite covert ops squad...so on so forth) Kept me glued from one novel to the next. Its nice to see others loving R. Morgans gritty tales of a dirty, horrifying, BELIEVABLE future, as much as I did.
If you havn't read his novel "13 / Black man" do so now.
madgrav 2 years ago
Thirteen (since im in the US) was pretty damn good too. I put it over Market Forces when Im recommending Morgan's books to friends. He just released a fantasy noir novel this year that i havent read yet. Think D&D only gritty and harsh like his other works. Im looking forward to reading it
hyenadude 2 years ago
I just started reading this a few days ago and I'm about two hundred pages in, and it's amazing. And I love the fact that there's not FTL. I love star wars, but every time I watch it, I can't get relativity out of my mind. I always see time traveling back and killing the enemy as a solution. Maybe I'm weird, but it ruins some of it for me. And Miriam Bancroft sounds incredibly hot for somebody that's 350 years old. I'd hit that.
HisManOfTomorrow 2 years ago
Takeshi Kovacs is the toughest motherf*cker ever! Altered Carbon was a gem of a book. I just randomly picked it up last year and i just couldn't put it down.
Richard Morgan sold the rights to Hollywood a few years back and the film should be coming out in early 2010.
I cannot wait!
karadan100 3 years ago
It always make me really sad for the people in a sci-fi book once I find out they don't have FTL travel.
Anyway, this was really interesting, I'm gonna pick up a copy :)
TheBrunoYouKnow 3 years ago
even though they dont have true FTL capability they make up for it with "needlecast" data transmission. they can sent data at FLT speeds and can therefore send a digitized human somewhere then "resleeve" them in a new body.
its an interesting way of getting around the FTL issue. its no different than having to clear gravity wells and such for more traditional FTL solutions
hyenadude 3 years ago