Woken Furies, Richard K. Morgan
Woken Furies, Richard K. Morgan
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Woken Furies
A Takeshi Kovacs Novel

Author: Richard K. Morgan

Series: Kovacs #3

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 22 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/15/2006

Synopsis

Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history.

In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlan's World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system, and live with a blood feud with the yakuza, and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with "the" Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows it's time to be afraid.

After all, the guy sent to kill him is himself: but younger, stronger, and straight out of hell.

About Richard K. Morgan

Richard K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book that also won the Philip K. Dick Award. Morgan sold the movie rights for Altered Carbon to Joel Silver and Warner Bros. His third book, Market Forces, has also been sold to Warner Bros. He lives in Scotland.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Jonathan on 2011-10-04 17:01:04

Listen to William Dufris read Woken Furies only if you can find NOTHING else to rent. After the supurb readings of the first two Kovacs novels by Todd McLaren this one is almost unlistenable. Morgan is a wonderful writer of noir sci fi, but you probably wont know that from listening to this audio book.

Goodreads review by Bradley on March 02, 2018

I see a lot of mixed reactions to this book but fortunately, mine is all gung-ho. Why? Because I freaking love this book. Why? Because it has all the best features of the hardest of hard-SF, the fantastic world-building, the hard tech, the bloodthirsty craziness of uploaded and downloaded consciousn......more

Goodreads review by Efka on August 03, 2018

I'm a grown-up. And I've seen quite a lot. Also, I know quite a lot - no boasting here, just plain facts. So, for a guy in a mid of his 30ies, who's seen and knows a lot - I'm at a very big disadvantage here. Because all I can say after reading this book, is "I don't know". Here's a list of things r......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on March 26, 2018

This was another good instalment in Richard Morgan's excellent Takeshi Kovacs series. I find Morgan's writing to be super engaging and the story itself delivers a good mix of action, humor, and mystery while still giving the reader plenty of thought-provoking themes to ponder. This third book took us......more

Goodreads review by Michelle F on April 02, 2022

Listen, in a couple of years I am going to reread this whole series...because, overall, it really is pretty good. I'm going to bet that my reread will end with a more convicted endorsement of this third volume. I really think it will. This time around, though, I have to say that I only just landed o......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on December 10, 2012

Actual rating: 4.25 I heard once that in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, the weather--so starkly and powerfully portrayed--is often considered a character in the movie as much as any of the actors. In exactly the same way, Woken Furies is less about the protagonist, Takeshi Kovacs, than it is about th......more

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