This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything. Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage

理查德·摩根（1965－ ）

英國新一代科幻作傢的代錶，畢業於劍橋大學，主修曆史，之後周遊世界，從事英語教學工作。2002年《副本》齣版後成為專職作傢。

作為科幻作傢，理查德·摩根對未來的看法十分悲觀。這種觀念也許來自他對曆史的研究。在一次采訪中，他明確錶示：“人類社會現在是、過去是、將來也必然是以壓迫、剝削大眾為目的的存在。”

在這種思想的指導下，他的“武·科瓦奇係列”呈現齣鮮明的反烏托邦色彩，加上陰鬱的色調、飛快的節奏，使這個係列具有強烈的賽博朋剋風格。與此同時，該係列又與美國20世紀30年代硬漢派偵探小說十分相似，語言堅硬冷峻，時有雋語，顯示齣批判的鋒芒。