"Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again."
He dripped out of me sometime back before the turn of the century, like oil from the cracked sump of my rage; and like oil, he has no form. Give him a face and he'll wear it, a body and he'll make it work. Whatever the work is, he'll see it done. But he's more demon than man, more spirit of the age than hero of the hour, and you invoke him, on whatever world, in whatever guise, at your own eternal risk. Bring your own morality to this one, you're going to need it. And buckle up.
Welcome to the Kovacs ride.
Cheers, Richard.
'Snapshot of an anti-hero.' Forward; Altered Carbon: Download Blues.
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"There was rain in the air when I got back to the city. Somewhere in the gloom below the concrete bones of the expressway a holo of a woman danced in a cocktail glass, but there was a fault in the 'caster and the image kept fizzling out."
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Today is a good day! I did art! I finally have a design for my back patch! With some great quotes including the iconic Leslie Feinberg because I am queer....but also Gandalf, Picard and PTerry Pratchett...because I am a nerd! Love the idea of showing this off at music events.
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I keep getting Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan and The Expanse books by James S. A. Corey mixed up.
I haven't read either books, the mix up is because I ordered both as a christmas present for my boyfriend. I ordered Altered Carbon books too late, but it's still a gift.
I keep saying The Expanse books have shipped. They are on our shelf. It's the other sci-fi trilogy with a tv series that shipped.
Also I only just noticed that Richard K. Morgan also wrote The Steel Remains.
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"You could have been a man of power, Kovacs. Do you understand that? You could have been /significant/."
"I don't think so," I murmured weakly, starting to slide back down the glass. "I've still got a conscience rattling around in here somewhere. Just forgotten where I put it."
Kawahara grimaced and redoubled her hold on my collar. "Very witty. Spirited. You're going to need that, where you're going."
"/When they ask how I died,/" I said. "/Tell them: Still Angry./"
Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan
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