by Richard K. Morgan
Published 2004
A generation after the events of Altered Carbon, former Envoy Takeshi Kovacs is fighting as a mercenary in a brutal interstellar war on the far planet Sanction IV when he is pulled out of the trenches by an unusual offer. A wounded archaeologist has discovered the location of a Martian artifact more valuable than any government's budget: a gate to an ancient starship still waiting in orbit. Kovacs assembles a ragged team of specialists, cuts a deal with a corporate backer who cannot be trusted, and sets out across a radiation-scarred warzone to reach the site before anyone else does. Richard Morgan's 2003 sequel drives the series into full-on military science fiction territory, trading the noir streets of the first book for battlefield philosophy, alien cosmology, and the quiet horror of treating human bodies as fungible resupply stock. Morgan's Kovacs remains one of the most distinctive first-person voices in modern SF, and Broken Angels is widely considered the harshest, most thematically ambitious volume of the trilogy.
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