Richard Morgan, author of The Steel Remains and Black Man, is a Guest of Honour at this year’s SWANCON, the 34th Annual West Australian Science Fiction Convention. The convention is held at the All Seasons Hotel in Northbridge, Perth, from April 9-13.
The bestselling author of Altered Carbon takes on the world of fantasy – and tears it to shreds.
Morgan turns his trademark visceral writing style, turbo-driven plotting, thought provoking characterisation and cynical noir flair to the epic world of fantasy and, as you would expect from this genre-bending author, conjures up a unique and exciting adrenalin-fuelled rush of a novel. The Steel Remains is the tale of three anti-social, anti-heroic and deeply irritated protagonists – a Steppe-nomad, a cynical engineer, and a man desperate to escape small-town entanglements – and propels them unwillingly into a vicious and unsuspecting fantasy world where terrifying spirits are abroad and a decadent empire which owes them everything, and gave them nothing, needs them once more.
The Steel Remains is a hip, sleek, cinematic and very cool book that moves beyond traditional swords and sorcery into an exploration of darker moral territory with unlikely heroes and subversion of traditions. This is dark, brooding, bloody, visceral stuff filled with Barbarian violence, superior genre-bending and brutal fantasy fun. This is not safe, old fashioned fantasy with knights and fair maidens and princes and wizards that lived in some idyllic pre-modern pastoral past. This is an edgier, grittier and more morally ambivalent world filled with dysfunctional characters. This is retro-dystopic noir fantasy. It’s vicious. It’s cynical. It’s sexy. It’s rock ‘n’ roll.
25 September 08, Gollancz, $32.99 original paperback
Richard Morgan is 39 and was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He won the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best SF novel published in Britain in 2007 for Black Man. He is married and lives in Glasgow. Also by the author: Black Man; Altered Carbon; Woken Furies; and Market Forces.
Source: Brendan Fredericks, Publicist
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