Perhaps the distinguishing feature of Morgan's work is the strength of its Political anger, for which only a few authors in the field such as Joanna Russ or Harlan Ellison can rival him. It was produced for Television as Altered Carbon (18 60-minute episodes from 2 February 2018 Netflix), with further seasons commissioned. Altered Carbon won the Philip K Dick Award. Morgan's command of narrative drive visibly strengthens as the sequence goes along, though all the books have considerable momentum. Their settings, however, owe much to the information-dense vocabulary established for sf by Cyberpunk. Kovacs's adventures involve a great deal of violence, depicted with a degree of detail most often associated with Horror.

The setting of the Kovacs sequence is a United Nations-supervised group of planets whose economy is dominated by the availability of a costly form of potential Immortality: a personality can be recorded and 'resleeved' in a new body (see Identity Transfer). Altered Carbon was the first of a three-volume sequence featuring the mercenary/detective Takeshi Kovacs, subsequent books being Broken Angels ( 2003) and Woken Furies ( 2005). (1965- ) British author who began publishing work of genre interest with Altered Carbon ( 2002) as by Richard K Morgan the middle initial also appears on US reprints.

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan