Più di un milione di libri, a un clic di distanza!
Bookbot

Takeshi Kovacs

Questa serie immerge i lettori in un futuro cupo e distopico in cui la coscienza può essere digitalizzata e trasferita tra corpi, eludendo di fatto la morte. Un ex-soldato d'élite, ora agente speciale, viene resuscitato in un nuovo corpo per risolvere un omicidio di alto profilo in una metropoli decadente. Naviga attraverso una complessa rete di corruzione, intrighi aziendali e domande esistenziali sull'identità e su cosa significhi veramente essere vivi. È un'emozionante miscela di hard-boiled detective noir, azione cyberpunk ed esplorazione filosofica profonda.

Woken Furies
Broken Angels
Altered Carbon
Woken Furies
Broken Angels

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. 1

    Altered Carbon

    • 528pagine
    • 19 ore di lettura

    Uno straordinario noir ambientato in un futuro in cui anche le regole della vita e della morte sono alterate... «Ispirato da tutti i romanzi hard boiled che ho letto, arricchito da tutti i film francesi e giapponesi che ho visto, dalle opere di William Gibson e, ovviamente, dall'influenza di Blade Runner, ecco la mia versione del futuro. Un futuro noir.» Così Richard Morgan presenta il suo stupefacente esordio narrativo. Altered Carbon è un romanzo duro, provocatorio, dalla trama intrigante e sorprendente che ci proietta nel buco nero del nostro futuro, tecnologicamente avanzato ma moralmente corrotto, e assai simile al nostro presente, dato che le pulsioni degli esseri umani attraversano, immutate, anche i cambiamenti più radicali. Quale, ad esempio, la possibilità di digitalizzare la propria coscienza e trasferirla in un altro corpo, come avviene per Takeshi Kovacs, un ex soldato che si ritrova suo malgrado in un corpo «nuovo» a Bay City – una metropoli in piena decadenza, in mano a politici arroganti e spacciatori di droghe sintetiche – per far luce su un omicidio. Le indagini lo trascinano nei meccanismi perversi di una società che ha snaturato il senso della vita e della morte, una società per cui gli individui sono solo pedine in un gioco condotto da chi si può permettere l’immortalità... Questo romanzo è già apparso con il titolo di Bay City. Con un'intervista esclusiva all'autore a cura di Edoardo Rialti

    Altered Carbon
  2. 2
  3. 2

    Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planet’s government put down a bloody revolution. But when it comes to taking sides, the only one Kovacs is ever really on is his own. So when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he’s only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnolgy with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store. But armed with his genetically engineered instincts, and his trusty twin Kalashnikovs, Takeshi is ready to take on anything—and let the devil take whoever’s left behind.

    Broken Angels
  4. 3

    Woken Furies

    • 480pagine
    • 17 ore di lettura

    "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. 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, 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."-- Amazon.com

    Woken Furies
  5. 3

    Woken Furies

    • 436pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura

    This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything. Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage

    Woken Furies