{"id":2424,"date":"2008-03-27T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/27\/richard-k-morgan-broken-angels\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T09:25:03","slug":"richard-k-morgan-broken-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/27\/richard-k-morgan-broken-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard K. Morgan, Broken Angels [Library of Babel]"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second Takeshi Kovacs novel, sequel to Altered Carbon<\/cite>. Kovacs is a former UN Envoy, a generally amoral individual loaded up with a bunch of sophisticated mental conditioning, and sent out into the world to troubleshoot problem spots for the world government. And he’s a guy who really puts the “shoot” in “troubleshoot”…<\/p>\n

In Kovacs’s universe, humantiy has expanded to the stars using dribs and drabs of technology gleaned from the leavings of an alien race, known colloquially as “Martians,” because their first ruins were discovered on Mars. When the book opens, he’s working for a mercenary company in a stalemated little war on a backwater planet, and getting a bit bored. So, when an enterprising fellow comes to him with a story of an archeological dig finding a portal leading to an intact Martian spaceship, he jumps at the opportunity, bust the archeologist out of a prison camp, acquires some nasty corporate backing, and sets out to make a fortune.<\/p>\n

This is essentially a Jack McDevitt plot as written by Neal Asher: a team of characters digs into the ruins and secrets of an ancient civilization, and along the way gets slaughtered in novel and graphic ways. It doesn’t really say anything all that deep about the human condition, but it’s got great SF scenery, and the action scenes are hard to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the second Takeshi Kovacs novel, sequel to Altered Carbon. Kovacs is a former UN Envoy, a generally amoral individual loaded up with a bunch of sophisticated mental conditioning, and sent out into the world to troubleshoot problem spots for the world government. And he’s a guy who really puts the “shoot” in “troubleshoot”…… Continue reading Richard K. Morgan, Broken Angels [Library of Babel]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booklog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}