理查德·摩根（1965－ ）

英國新一代科幻作傢的代錶，畢業於劍橋大學，主修曆史，之後周遊世界，從事英語教學工作。2002年《副本》齣版後成為專職作傢。

作為科幻作傢，理查德·摩根對未來的看法十分悲觀。這種觀念也許來自他對曆史的研究。在一次采訪中，他明確錶示：“人類社會現在是、過去是、將來也必然是以壓迫、剝削大眾為目的的存在。”

在這種思想的指導下，他的“武·科瓦奇係列”呈現齣鮮明的反烏托邦色彩，加上陰鬱的色調、飛快的節奏，使這個係列具有強烈的賽博朋剋風格。與此同時，該係列又與美國20世紀30年代硬漢派偵探小說十分相似，語言堅硬冷峻，時有雋語，顯示齣批判的鋒芒。

Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing legion of fans. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlan’s World forever.

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.

Wild, provocative, and riveting, Woken Furies is a full-bore science fiction spectacular of the highest order–from one of the most original and spellbinding storytellers at work today.

From the Hardcover edition.