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Richard Morgan ist ein britischer Science-Fiction- und Fantasy-Schriftsteller.

Richard Morgan wuchs in Hethersett auf, einem kleinen Ort in der Nähe von Norwich. Er studierte Englisch und Geschichte in Cambridge. Darauf folgten vierzehn Jahre, in denen er sich als Englischlehrer im Ausland seinen Unterhalt verdiente, u. a. in Istanbul, Madrid und in Lateinamerika.

Er landete mit dem Science-Fiction-Roman Das Unsterblichkeitsprogramm 2002 einen Überraschungsbestseller. Der mit dem Philip K. Dick Award als bester Roman des Jahres ausgezeichnete Titel bildete den Auftakt einer Trilogie um den Söldner Takeshi Kovacs. Nachdem die Filmrechte an dem Roman für eine siebenstellige Summe an den Hollywood-Produzenten Joel Silver verkauft worden waren, fasste der Autor den Entschluss, sein Geld von nun an als Schriftsteller zu verdienen. Heute lebt und arbeitet er in Glasgow.

Die Takeshi-Kovacs-Trilogie wurde mit den Fortsetzungen Gefallene Engel und Heiliger Zorn komplettiert. Außerdem ist noch der Globalisierungsthriller Profit erschienen, der zwar ebenfalls in der Zukunft spielt, aber keinen direkten Bezug zur Trilogie hat.

Im November 2007 wurde sein Roman Skorpion veröffentlicht, der zirka 100 Jahre in der Zukunft angesiedelt ist, zur Zeit der Kolonisierung des Mars. Carl Marsalis, ein sogenannter „Dreizehner“ hat den Auftrag, andere Dreizehner festzunehmen oder zu liquidieren. Der Roman erhielt 2008 den Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Morgan erhebt für seine Science-Fiction-Romane den Anspruch, in Bezug auf die Darstellung der gesellschaftlichen und technologischen Entwicklung authentisch zu sein. Seine Geschichten fallen durch teils unterschwellige, teils offensichtliche Sozialkritik auf und seine Protagonisten sind oft ausgesprochen zynisch. Er selbst kategorisiert seine Science-Fiction als Future Noir.

Mit The Steel Remains – erster Teil einer geplanten Trilogie A Land Fit For Heroes – versuchte Richard Morgan, seinen Noir-Stil in ein Fantasy-Szenario zu übertragen. 2011 erschien der zweite Teil der Trilogie The Cold Commands.

Neben seinen Romanen schrieb Morgan auch die Texte für zwei Marvel-Comics und erarbeitete die Handlung für das Computerspiel Crysis 2. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. September 1965  •  Andere Namen ريتشارد مورغان, 理查德·摩根
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“I’m stacked, backed up and I’m fifth dan
And I’m not afraid of the Patchwork Man”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 23 (p. 295)

“Kristin, nothing ever does change.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

I jerked a thumb back at the crowd outside. “You’ll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don’t have to think for themselves. You’ll always have people like Kawahara and the Bancrofts to push their buttons and cash in on the program. People like you to make sure the game runs smoothly and the rules don’t get broken too often. And when the Meths want to break the rules themselves, they’ll send people like Trepp and me to do it. That’s the truth, Kristin. It’s been the truth since I was born a hundred and fifty years ago, and from what I read in the history books, it’s never been any different. Better get used to it.”
Epilogue (p. 524)
Altered Carbon (2002)

“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Broken Angels

Quelle: Broken Angels

“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 23 (p. 300)
Kontext: “The human eye is a wonderful device,” I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. “With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”

“We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Woken Furies

Quelle: Woken Furies

“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”

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Richard K. Morgan

Quelle: Thirteen

“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a wilful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.”

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Richard K. Morgan

Richard Morgan (2002) in: "Never Mind the Cyberpunks: An Interview with Richard Morgan" at SaxonBullock.com, published by SlateMagazine.co.uk, 2002
Morgan discussing his "take away" of his novel Altered Carbon

“Naturally these penalties were applicable only to private citizens, not military commanders or government executives. The powerful are jealous of their toys.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 29 (p. 371)

“They were cold, professionally polished, and well on their way up a career ladder that would ensure that despite the uniforms they wore, they would never have to come within a thousand kilometers of a genuine firefight. The only problem they had, as they cruised sharkishly back and forth across the cool marble floor of the court, was in drawing the fine differences between war—mass murder of people wearing a uniform not your own; justifiable loss—mass murder of your own troops, but with substantial gains; and criminal negligence—mass murder of your own troops, without appreciable benefit.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 18 (p. 236)

““You’re not corporate,” she said definitely. “Corporates don’t do this stuff. Not like this.”
“The corporates do whatever turns a profit. Don’t let your prejudices blind you. Sure, they’ll burn down entire villages if it pays. But if having a human face is what cuts it, they’ll whip out a human face and put it on.””

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 30 (p. 377)

“Anyone who bar-codes their employees isn’t likely to be the forgiving type, and the reflex of long-held obedience through hierarchy is usually enough to overcome fear of a combat death. That’s how you fight wars, after all—with soldiers who are more afraid of stepping out of line than they are of dying on the battlefield.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 14 (p. 182)

““I’d rather you didn’t smoke in here.”
“Kawahara, I’d rather you died of an internal hemorrhage, but I don’t suppose you’ll oblige me.””

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 25 (p. 319)

“Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 16 (p. 215)

“Whatever. If Carnegie wakes up not knowing, he might make some private inquiries, but he ain’t going to be in too much of a hurry to let the police department in on it. And if he wakes up knowing—” He spread his hands. “—he’ll make less noise than a Catholic orgasm.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 37 (p. 439)

“I paused and set down my glass, searching for the fine edge of deceit that always lies right up against the truth.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 32 (p. 394)

““Petty tyrant a long time back. He built this place.”
“Trepp said it belonged to the Catholics.”
Kawahara shrugged. “Petty tyrant with delusions of religion. Catholics get on well with tyranny. It’s in the culture.””

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 25 (p. 321)

“Whatever world it is, whatever you’ve done there for better or worse, you always leave the same way.
Alone.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Epilogue (p. 523)
Altered Carbon (2002)

““Kristin, nothing ever does change.” I jerked a thumb back at the crowd outside. “You’ll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don’t have to think for themselves. You’ll always have people like Kawahara and the Bancrofts to push their buttons and cash in on the program. People like you to make sure the game runs smoothly and the rules don’t get broken too often. And when the Meths want to break the rules themselves, they’ll send people like Trepp and me to do it. That’s the truth, Kristin. It’s been the truth since I was born a hundred and fifty years ago, and from what I read in the history books, it’s never been any different. Better get used to it.””

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Epilogue (p. 524)
Altered Carbon (2002)

“The past is relevant only as data.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 18 (p. 242)

“Money doesn’t automatically mean taste.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 21 (p. 276)

“This was no time for thinking. Thought in combat was a luxury about as appropriate as a hot bath and massage.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 41 (p. 493)

“Just as a primitive sextant functions on the illusion that the sun and stars rotate around the planet we are standing on, our senses give us the illusion of stability in the universe, and we accept it, because without that acceptance, nothing can be done.
Virginia Vidaura, pacing the seminar room, lost in lecture mode.
But the fact that a sextant will let you navigate accurately across an ocean does not mean that the suns and stars do rotate are us. For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying, and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self-knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 28 (pp. 354-355)

“The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 25 (p. 318)

““Bay City public prosecutor’s office wants to subpoena a Catholic who’s in storage. Pivotal witness. The Vatican says she’s already dead, and in the hands of God. They’re calling it blasphemy.”
“I see. So your loyalties are pretty undivided here.”
She stopped and turned to face me.
“Kovacs, I hate these goddamn freaks. They’ve been grinding us down for the best part of two and a half thousand years. They’ve been responsible for more misery than any other organization in history. You know they won’t even let their adherents practice birth control, for Christ’s sake, and they’ve stood against every significant medical advance of the last five centuries.””

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 2 (pp. 24-25)

“She held her discarded shoulder holster dangling in one hand, and her breasts moved beneath the thin cotton of a white T-shirt that bore the legend YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT—WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT FOR A WHILE?”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 22 (p. 287)

“Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing.
Someone else was paying.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 16 (p. 217)

“Bancroft wants privacy, he spends half a million on discretion systems. Me, I just go talk where no one’s listening.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 21 (pp. 280-281)

“When I was younger I used to go out looking for squalid brawls in the streets of Newpest. This got a couple of people stabbed, neither of them me, and led in turn to my apprenticeship in one of the Harlan’s World gangs, Newpest chapter. Later on I upgraded this kind of retreat by joining the military: brawling with a purpose, and with more extensive weaponry, but as it turned out, just as squalid. I don’t suppose I should have been as surprised as I was—the only thing the Marine Corps recruiter had really wanted to know was how many fights I had won.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 11 (pp. 136-137)

“We are, after all, evolved to relate to the physical world.”

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Richard K. Morgan buch Altered Carbon

Quelle: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 17 (p. 227)

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