Posts Tagged ‘biotechnology’

As the third book begins, our favourite hero, Kovacs, is hunting down some religious fanatics and giving them a darned good killing. Before ripping their stacks out and feeding them to the lions. Literally.

Swept up in what seems a small and isolated incident, everything naturally snowballs from there, and Kovacs finds himself smack in the middle of a new uprising of Quellist rebels who have found something hard to focus themselves on – Quellcrist Falconer her own dead self, who seems to have ghosted into the body of Kovacs’ latest object of fondness. It’s an intriguing story because it really focusses even further on the ongoing exploration of digitalised identity, death, and just how real are we anyway?

Because, intriguingly, I feel Andy Remic’s target audience isn’t necessarily the hardcore fantasy reader, but possibly those who have just thought of moving on from R.A. Salvatore and into higher fantasy, but still want the action and basic flow. And the person writing that vitriolic nonsense seems, to me, to have a rather low level of creativity, flair, and intelligence so I would have thought Mister Remic’s books would have suited him or been too hard for him. It was, for me, a moment of weirdness as I read this book.

Mister Morgan’s first novel is a knockout. It’s got a hardboiled detective (ex-ubersoldier) and a millionaire hiding deep dark secrets of the sleazy sexual kind. It’s got an equally sleazy millionaire’s wife, a cynical sexy police detective and an equal number of goons hired on simply to be killed by our hero. Sometimes, because they’re cool, they even get killed twice. Because that’s the kind of book this is.

I’m getting a bit carried away here, but I’m finding myself desperately trying to resist using words like “dame” and “gumshoe.”

I think Mister Morgan knows how that feels.