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Takeshi Kovacs

Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in een rauwe, dystopische toekomst waarin bewustzijn gedigitaliseerd en tussen lichamen overgezet kan worden, waardoor de dood effectief omzeild wordt. Een voormalige elitesoldaat, nu een speciaal agent, wordt in een nieuw lichaam nieuw leven ingeblazen om een spraakmakende moord op te lossen in een decadente metropool. Hij navigeert door een complex web van corruptie, bedrijfsintriges en existentiële vragen over identiteit en wat het werkelijk betekent om te leven. Het is een spannende mix van hard-boiled detective noir, cyberpunk-actie en diepgaande filosofische verkenning.

Woken Furies
Broken angels
Altered Carbon

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  1. Altered Carbon

    • 544bladzijden
    • 20 uur lezen

    It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve"), making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Onetime U.N. Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Resleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats existence as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning.

    Altered Carbon1
    4,1
  2. Broken angels

    • 484bladzijden
    • 17 uur lezen

    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.

    Broken angels2
    3,9
  3. Woken Furies

    • 576bladzijden
    • 21 uur lezen

    Science fiction. Returning to Harlan's World to achieve retribution for a lost love, Takeshi Kovacs becomes caught up in political intrigue when he comes to the aid of a woman being hunted by a savage young Envoy who claims that he is Kovacs himself

    Woken Furies3
    4,0