Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary ... more
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 who...
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Broken Angelsis a standalone sequel, to Richard Morgan's debut novelAltered Carbon--a ... more
high-tech, ultra-violent,noirSF thriller which attracted much attention, including a movie deal.Thirty years later, our super-soldier hero Takeshi Kovacs is wearing y...
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Broken Angels is a standalone sequel, to Richard Morgan's debut novel Altered Carbon--a ... more
high-tech, ultra-violent, noir SF thriller which attracted much attention, including a movie deal. Thirty years later, our super-soldier hero Takeshi Kovacs is wearing yet another body (swapping is easy in this future), already wounded in a messy war against revolutionary forces on the planet Sanction IV. Very soon he's lured from his duties into a hunt for a fantastic treasure discovered by archaeologists and carefully hushed up. The long-vanished Martians who once colonised the galaxy have left a buried hyperspace gateway leading to a working starship in distant orbit. Kovacs uses frightening violence to get the attention of corporate sponsors even more ruthless than himself. His hastily assembled exploration team must work in a lethal fallout zone, racing to open the gate before they're stopped by radiation sickness, treacherous sabotage, or the threat of fast-evolving nanoweaponry. And there are repeated hints that if they ever make it through that gateway, worse things are waiting on the far side... It's all desperately tense and crafted with appalling inventiveness. Life is cheap and death is no release, because the "cortical stack" implanted in everyone's spine constantly records the total personality, ready for "re-sleeving" in a new clone body or storage in virtual reality. So Kovacs goes recruiting at the macabre Soul Market, where thanks to the war there are literal skiploads of hacked-out sections of human spine containing stacks--for sale by the kilogram. Other ingredients include sex, voodoo, torture, multiple betrayal, cool military technology, incomprehensible alien constructions, age-old cycles of catastrophe, and--above all--extreme violence. The screw is turned further and further, beyond what seems possible. Readers may find themselves forgetting to breathe. This is a rattling good yarn, for the strong of stomach. --David Langford
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Advantages: Fast Paced, easy to read Disadvantages: I couldn't put it down
BrokenAngels by Richard Montanari is in essence a serial killer thriller.
Perched on a stone pier, as if she were sat at watching the river ebb and flow. She was wearing nothing but a long pink dress from a different age entirely. The victim had clearly been posed and much to the shocking, grim discovery of Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne, the murder detectives on the case, she had had both of her feet amputated.
Balzano and Byrne start investigating the murder, identify the victim, interviewing her friends. They are treating this a a single murder until another body rocks up, this too, close to the riverbank and posed and dressed in a bizarre outfit. The body count rises but will Balzano and Byrne discover the killers grotesque plan and put a stop to the killings? Well, you will have to read it to find out.
I very much ...
Advantages: Very unique smell, long lasting, attractive packaging Disadvantages: Initially very strong smelling, quite expensive
I think I have heard more bad comments about this fragrance than any other.
But, in the one week which I have been wearing it, I have had about 5 people stop me and ask me what kind of fragrance I am wearing.
Angel isn't by all means a new fragrance. I was first introduced in 1993. Over 10 years old. Wow! If people are still wearing it, and talking about it, I definitely think that it has made an impression.
I remember the first time ever smelling this fragrance. A friend of a friend was wearing it. My first impressions of it, were very strong, and a very unique but girly smelling fragrance. Extremely sweet smelling, and although this has a vanilla base, it isn't distinctive. Definitely not a fragrance that anyone and everyone could get away with buying.
I was inspired to purchase this after recently receiving a free Thierry ...
After a couple of attempts at science fiction, RichardMorgan has turned his hand to fantasy. His earlier works have been well thought of; frequently praised for bringing a touch of reality to the science fiction genre and his fantasy work promises to do the same.
Ringil Eskiath is a war hero, living in the small town of Gallow's Gap; the scene of his greatest moment in a war between humans and a lizard race. His sword hangs in a tavern where he spends most of his time, except when called upon to rid the town of minor nuisances. Although he's still killing things in return for money and favours, his role is now more pest control than protection. Until one day his mother appears and asks him to search for his missing cousin; a request which reluctantly takes him home and throws him into a situation far more serious than it first ...
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EAN
9780575075504
Type
Fiction
Genre
Science Fiction
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Title
Broken Angels
Author
Richard Morgan
ISBN
0575075503
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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.
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Finally, after two books, Hamilton reinfuses the series with some of the horror and suspense that got me hooked in the first place, while keeping up the emotional tug of the ongoing storylines...
Eight books in and you could come to this one cold - but there's more to enjoy of you've read the others. (*)
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