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by Richard Morgan (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (17 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 057507325X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575073258
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 214,884 in Books (See Bestsellers 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

Barry Seddon, Manchester Evening News
"I have been hooked on his style and the far-out imagination which magically transforms his tales into adventures of the SF variety."

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast, Hard and very Heavy, 24 Mar 2005
This is the third outing for Morgan's anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs and here he certainly hits his stride.

This time we get to learn the protagonist's origins, we see him in his home territory and find out just how he became the man he is.

You can only be new once, so this is not as startling as Morgan's debut.

It is better.

If you've read Richard Morgan before you can guess that this is a tensely plotted, extremely violent science fiction thriller.

You may also expect an intricate and clever plot.

He delivers in spades, giving startling, plausible twists and shock revelations.

What you may not expect is that it has a philosophy, a political philosophy, no less. And that gives it the kind of heart and depth hinted at in Morgan's previous Kovacs novels Altered Carbon and Broken Angels. Anyone who dismissed these books as lightweight will be pleasantly surprised at just how serious, relevant and resonant to the times that Woken Furies is.

If Altered Carbon was a toy for the boys, the Woken Furies is something grown ups of varieties can appreciate.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Deeper and deeper into Takeshi's World(s), 25 Jul 2005
By S. H. Drake "shd1969" - See all my reviews
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Yes, the best Richard Morgan yet.
Yes, a tale that helps us understand Kovacs' behaviour in this and previous novels, without you necessarily agreeing with many of his actions. This is despite his own (and Morgan's ??) attempts to justify them.
Yes, a book that seriously rewards re-reads, as I for one tore through it first time and missed some key content. Morgan's prose really claws you along.

What really opens the character is his interaction with past friends, as in previous books despite some "romance" he has been the violent loner par excellence. Here, Takeshi explores old (and some new) relationships with more humanity and credibility, not least with his younger self !

Because of the above, and the fundamentally more complex and fulfilling plot, I would recommend reading Altered Carbon and Broken Angels first.

My only reservations are that it is fairly simple to spot the numerous plot/sci-fi influences, but hey, they are so well woven-in that you just don't care.

Personally, if this is Takeshi's send-off, it's a great one. There are no doubt more places he can go, and more beings/objects he can obliterate, but I hope Richard Morgan doesn't do a "Culture" with this series and begin to retread ideas....

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Keep-You-Awake Fury, 8 Mar 2005
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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Ambiguous Feelings
I've read all 4 of Richard Morgan's novels now, having just finished the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy, and while I found the books extremely hard to put down, I have finally come up... Read more
Published 6 days ago by Theodore Stauffer

4.0 out of 5 stars Kovacs comes home and faces the music.
Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-Envoy now working for his own agenda, has returned to his homeworld of Harlan's World on a personal mission of vengeance. Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Whitehead

2.0 out of 5 stars Worst audio book of the series
They apparently changed the narrator on this last audio book of the trilogy and forgot to tell him how to pronounce the name of the protagonist. This becomes very irritating. Read more
Published 14 months ago by M. Metzler

5.0 out of 5 stars Kovacs Just Gets Better ad Better
Having just finished the third of the Takeshi Kovacs novels (the first was the excellent 'Altered Carbon', the second the fantastic 'Broken Angels') I am sat here missing Kovacs... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Dr. Robert Fisher

5.0 out of 5 stars Morgans' Best?
I really enjoyed Altered Carbon, loved Broken Angels and ... kind of liked Woken Furies. Having re-read this, I think it's possibly Morgans' best book. Read more
Published on 10 May 2007 by Echoroom

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
For those who are new to the world of Takeshi Kovacs, it's well worth reading the previous two novels in the trilogy (Altered Carbon and Broken Angels). Read more
Published on 6 May 2007 by WJ FOX

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the payoff at the end
Before I read the last 100 pages of this book, I would have given it 3 stars. Woken Furies suffers from a common affliction among many sci-fi series: same-samey-ness. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2006 by Fudo Myo

1.0 out of 5 stars Lazy and disappointing
I became angry reading this book but before I became angry I became bored. In this third book in the Kovacs series there is nothing novel. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2006 by W. Hedinger

5.0 out of 5 stars They come to me with >Progress Reports< but all I see is change and bodies burnt
Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels are a visceral blend of William Gibson and Iain M Banks, with a few extra vats of gore slopped in for good measure. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2006 by Mr. Peter J. Baker

3.0 out of 5 stars Stick with it, an ending awaits
My initial thoughts on this (last ever?) Kovacs novel were mixed, but I think now that it is a worthy "ode" to a character who had run his course. Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2006 by Prestige Materials

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