- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (5 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575076526
- ISBN-13: 978-0575076525
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 293,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Woken Furies is Richard Morgan's third noir SF adventure starring combat veteran Takeshi Kovacs, who debuted in Altered Carbon (2002; winner of the Philip K. Dick Award). Kovacs operates in an interstellar future of extreme violence and exotic weaponry, where swapping bodies is as easy as trading in an old car.
The setting is Harlan's World, 95% ocean, where ancient alien orbital systems still vaporize anything that flies too high. Kovacs, older and madder, is running a private vendetta against Taliban-like fundamentalists whose principles--in a world where death is reversible--forced an old girl-friend and her child to die permanently. Wounded and on the run as usual, he escapes by joining a "deCom" squad hunting down human-built weapons systems that don't want to be decommissioned. Soon he's entangled with a woman who (some of the time) seems to be a reincarnation of long-dead revolutionary leader Quellcrist Falconer…
Meanwhile, the dictatorial ruling family of Harlan's World has set the deadliest possible assassin on Kovacs' trail--an illegal copy of his younger self, in a brand-new body.
High-energy complications follow. There's unexpected violence in a virtual-reality monastery. Kovacs and "Quellist" sympathizers plan a crazy James Bond assault on an impregnable island fortress, an attack that ends in a surprise twist. The idealistic Quellcrist (if that's who she is) has the key to a genetic time-bomb never before used: "A whole new form of death." Even those implacable orbital weapons that smite high-fliers with "angelfire" have secrets of their own.
Morgan's knack for grisly set-pieces and heart-stopping violence makes for compulsive reading--emphatically not for the squeamish. Against all odds, his fast-moving choreography of pursuits, escapes, shoot-outs, reversals and betrayals finally ends in a satisfying touch of compassion, a trace of hope. A superior SF thriller. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Richard Morgan, never less than engrossing, his mastery of the SF thriller has brought a well deserved new kudos to the genre.' (Peter F Hamilton )
""Morgan creates a narrative which is akin to a weapons-loaded ship crewed by angry pirates. An action packed thriller full of brilliantyl choreographed set-piece scenes." (SFX )
"Underneath all the crowd pleasing violence, it is an interesting tale" 3/5 (Anthony Brown Dreamwatch )
"The characterisations are vibrant... a rich plot and trademark conceptual freestlying.. hits the retina like a laser beam and it's a true page turner." (Richard Bagley Morning Star )
"This is a terrific book; the only problem is that it's quite hard to know quite what Morgan can do for an encore." (Alex Sarll PA News )
"As inventively nasty as Morgan's other novels about Kovacs. Morgan's world is one of unbridled capitalist thuggery where more goes wrong than the rest of us easily imagine." (Roz Kaveney TIME OUT )
Richard Morgan's hardboiled SF books about the grimly blood-spattered 'hero' Takeshi Kovacs come with a formidable reputation and it's easy to see why. The third book, WOKEN FURIES, is terrific. Morgan's narrative can seem unsympathetically inhuman and amoral, only to pull you up short with deliciously ingenious SF twists on psycho-thriller melodramas. Remember, when a femme fatale starts chanting machine code at an intimate moment, it is time to be very afraid. His writing is rewardingly dense (DREAMWATCH )
(A) Maelstrom of plasmafrag rifle fire, neurachem enhancements and alien constructs. A third outing for Richard Morgan's anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs, Woken Furies marks something of a consolidation point both for the hard-bitten ex-special forces operative, and the calculating heavy metal noir environment he inhabits. (EDGE )
Morgan's knack for grisly set-pieces and heart-stopping violence makes for compulsive reading. A superior SF thriller. (Dave Langford Amazon )
"Cyberpunk continues to work because the original was built on the foundations of hard-boiled detective fiction, and readers instantly understand the rules. Morgan takes those rules and twists them just enough to add uncertainty to the mix." (Jon Courtenay Grimwood GUARDIAN )
'In the last few years, Richard Morgan has really taken the scene by storm. I recommend WOKEN FURIES. Kovacs' character is one of the strongest to come out of SF in recent years, and his universe has been crafted with vast depth and detail. The social and technological environment is rich, believable and absorbing, pulling the reader in." (INTERZONE )
"I have been hooked on his style and the far-out imagination which magically transforms his tales into adventures of the SF variety." (Barry Seddon Manchester Evening News ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
""Morgan creates a narrative which is akin to a weapons-loaded ship crewed by angry pirates. An action packed thriller full of brilliantyl choreographed set-piece scenes." (SFX )
"Underneath all the crowd pleasing violence, it is an interesting tale" 3/5 (Anthony Brown Dreamwatch )
"The characterisations are vibrant... a rich plot and trademark conceptual freestlying.. hits the retina like a laser beam and it's a true page turner." (Richard Bagley Morning Star )
"This is a terrific book; the only problem is that it's quite hard to know quite what Morgan can do for an encore." (Alex Sarll PA News )
"As inventively nasty as Morgan's other novels about Kovacs. Morgan's world is one of unbridled capitalist thuggery where more goes wrong than the rest of us easily imagine." (Roz Kaveney TIME OUT )
Richard Morgan's hardboiled SF books about the grimly blood-spattered 'hero' Takeshi Kovacs come with a formidable reputation and it's easy to see why. The third book, WOKEN FURIES, is terrific. Morgan's narrative can seem unsympathetically inhuman and amoral, only to pull you up short with deliciously ingenious SF twists on psycho-thriller melodramas. Remember, when a femme fatale starts chanting machine code at an intimate moment, it is time to be very afraid. His writing is rewardingly dense (DREAMWATCH )
(A) Maelstrom of plasmafrag rifle fire, neurachem enhancements and alien constructs. A third outing for Richard Morgan's anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs, Woken Furies marks something of a consolidation point both for the hard-bitten ex-special forces operative, and the calculating heavy metal noir environment he inhabits. (EDGE )
Morgan's knack for grisly set-pieces and heart-stopping violence makes for compulsive reading. A superior SF thriller. (Dave Langford Amazon )
"Cyberpunk continues to work because the original was built on the foundations of hard-boiled detective fiction, and readers instantly understand the rules. Morgan takes those rules and twists them just enough to add uncertainty to the mix." (Jon Courtenay Grimwood GUARDIAN )
'In the last few years, Richard Morgan has really taken the scene by storm. I recommend WOKEN FURIES. Kovacs' character is one of the strongest to come out of SF in recent years, and his universe has been crafted with vast depth and detail. The social and technological environment is rich, believable and absorbing, pulling the reader in." (INTERZONE )
"I have been hooked on his style and the far-out imagination which magically transforms his tales into adventures of the SF variety." (Barry Seddon Manchester Evening News ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Keep-You-Awake Fury,
By NW "sirius3030" (cambridge) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Woken Furies (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
Morgan does it again. Another tautly written, tense thriller set in the world of Takeshi Kovacs, body sleeves and virtual death. As usual, there are plenty of high tech toys and the usual helpings of sex and violence to keep the cyberpunks happy. But Morgan's strength is his use of language to develop a powerful atmosphere and to create a believable world populated by real characters, married with a well-crafted story-line. The intensity of the story keeps you gripped from the first few pages, and the twists and turns of the plot will keep you guessing.Welcome to Harlan's World. Welcome to deCom.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Solid addition to Tak's crazy life.,
This review is from: Woken Furies (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
I wasn't sure if Richard Morgan could continue the precedent he set in Altered Carbon and continued in Broken Angels. What me worry? He has made me proud. An awesome book, that kept me gripped from beginning to end with so many twists, I could hardly keep up. Amazing detail, well written and nice to found out more about Takeshi and his home world. I will be re-reading it, as I am sure I've missed out on a lot. Highly recommended. If you haven't read the first two, I'd suggest you do. You won't regret it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Woken Furies (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
After thoroughly enjoying the first 2 "Cortical Stack universe" books I was thrilled to find a third in the pipeline. While Woken Furies seemed, to me at least, a little slower and more ponderous than the first two it was still highly entertaining. While Altered Carbon and Broken Angels were mostly standalone I would recommend having read at least one of the other books to establish some of the technology, terminology and characters before approaching Woken Furies, there is a fairly steep learning curve otherwise. I felt the violence had been toned down somewhat, it can be difficult to tell if its the text or just me getting used to people being splattered over walls, the whole mood of this book is Political, while there is a thread of Politics in each AC-Universe novel (Quellism, Family bloodlines etc) this one is motivated by shifting powerbases and fighting for control. It is also a new chapter in Takeshi Kovacs' personality, we see him meeting up with friends only hinted at previously and his overall mood seems to be broody and tense, a reflection of the author or possibly (hopefully) a deliberate portrayal of how Kovacs time apart from the Envoys and 'normal' life has changed him. Questions regarding his reasons for leaving the Corp. and his purpose in life make this less of a gun-fest and more philosophical (with guns of course) If you have not read any of these books I recommend you get them all, if you enjoy Sci-Fi and futuristic weaponry with layers of politics, betrayal, bio-tech, near-immortality and fluid, visceral prose then you can't say no to Takeshi Kovacs.
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