![]() Altered Carbon, Morgan’s first novel and the first of the Kovacs trilogy, was recently made into a decent Netflix series, which is perhaps the reason for his return to SF after a trilogy in the fantasy genre. ![]() Veil, admirers of Morgan’s work will recognise, is a spiritual cousin to Takeshi Kovacs, the cynical supersoldier beamed around the galaxy to wake up in new fleshy “sleeves” and put out fires – or, if required, start them. The first-person narration is casual and coarse, as befits a former mercenary, yet imagistic and sensuously attuned What follows is a dazzlingly intricate game of political double- and triple-cross, spiced with tastily kinetic battle sequences. ![]() Now down on his luck and living in a Mars district colloquially known as the Gash – like everything in the future, its streets look like those of Blade Runner – he gets a job as a bodyguard for a visitor from Earth, part of a delegation conducting an “audit” on the troublesome colony. ![]() Veil used to be an “overrider”, employed by the amusingly named gigacorporation COLIN to lie holed up in cryogenic stasis aboard commercial spaceships in case of mutiny or other profit-endangering emergency, at which point he would emerge from his hatch and kill all the troublemakers. ![]()
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