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Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, Book 3)
Written by Richard K. Morgan
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Average Score:
84(6)
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
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Book Details
Science Fiction
Paperback,
480 Pages
Published
by Del Rey on May 29, 2007
First Published by Gollancz in 2005
ISBN-10 0345499778
ISBN-13 978-0345499776
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Reviews
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SFRevu
| John Berlyne
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Review Rating: 100
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"this is one of the most brilliant and thrilling novels I've read in ages"
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Fantasy Literature
| Greg Hersom
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Review Rating: 95
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While Kovacs' antisocial behavior, violent tendencies, and authority issues may make him self-destructive and a danger to society, they make one helluva a dark adventure for readers.
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The Wertzone
| Adam Whitehead
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Review Rating: 90
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If Altered Carbon was a detective story and Broken Angels was a war story, Woken Furies is more of a political story and offers more of a glimpse into Kovacs' mindset, brought into sharp relief as he encounters old friends and enemies on his home planet.
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Andromeda Spaceways Inflight magazine
| Simon Petrie
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Review Rating: 80
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If Carbon flagged Morgan as an SF writer of major promise, Furies goes a very long way towards delivering on that promise.
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SF Reviews
| Thomas M. Wagner
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Review Rating: 80
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...Woken Furies marries breathtaking suspense and action with a more consistent and intellectually fulfilling plot that explores the dynamics of power and consequences of revolution from a perspective neither idealistic nor overly cynical and jaundiced.
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Fantasy Literature
| Marion Deeds
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Review Rating: 60
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Woken Furies has plenty of suspense and Morgan's action sequences hum with intensity.
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