Richard K. Morgan

Richard K. Morgan's novels explore identity, embodiment, memory, technology, power, violence, and the systems that determine whose choices matter. Altered Carbon imagines consciousness transferable between bodies, turning death, ownership, and investigation into contested concepts. Broken Angels carries that technology into war, where corporate interest and survival erode personal loyalty.

Market Forces links competition with institutional violence, while The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands, and The Dark Defiles move into a harsher fantasy setting shaped by conflict, exclusion, and uneasy alliances. Across these books, power is never only personal. It is embedded in markets, armies, bodies, and inherited hierarchies. Characters must choose inside systems designed to make every available option morally costly.