Morgan wrote two six-issue miniseries for Marvel Comics under the Marvel Knights imprint. In this novel, the Takeshi Kovacs character comes into his own as a hero, not merely a long-black-coat clad, boilerplate antihero. Morgan's third Kovacs novel, intended as the final novel in the series, Woken Furies, was released in the UK in March 2005 and in the U.S. After the success of his first two works, it was released as a novel and optioned as a film. It was originally written as a short story, then as a screenplay (both unpublished).

Market Forces, Morgan's first non-Kovacs novel, is set in the near future. The success of this book solidified his literary reputation. In 2003, Broken Angels was published, the sequel to Altered Carbon, again featuring Takeshi Kovacs and blending science fiction and war fiction in a similar way to his cross-genre début. The film rights were later acquired by Laeta Kalogridis, but production was trapped in development hell for a decade, eventually gaining release in 2018 as a Netflix series. Dick Award and the film rights were sold for a reported figure of $1,000,000 to film producer Joel Silver, enabling Morgan to become a full-time writer. edition of Altered Carbon received the Philip K. In 2002, Morgan's first novel Altered Carbon was published, combining elements of ' cyberpunk' and hardboiled detective fiction and featuring the antihero Takeshi Kovacs. He lived in Glasgow until 2015, when he moved to Saxlingham Nethergate with his wife Virginia and their son Daniel. After 14 years and a post at the University of Strathclyde, his first novel was published and he became a full-time writer. After graduating he started teaching English in order to travel the world. He attended private school and later studied modern languages and history at Queens' College, Cambridge.

Morgan was born in Norfolk, and brought up in the village of Hethersett, near Norwich, and had a semi-rural upbringing. Campbell Award in 2005, while his 2008 work Thirteen garnered him the Arthur C. His third book, Market Forces, won the John W. Dick Award for his 2003 book Altered Carbon, which was adapted into a Netflix series released in 2018. Richard Kingsley Morgan, (born 24 September 1965 in Norwich) is a British science fiction and fantasy author of books, short stories, and graphic novels. John Morgan (father), Margaret Morgan (mother)

Hardboiled, postcyberpunk, Science fiction, fantasy

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