Richard K. Morgan

Returning to Harlan's World to achieve retribution for a lost love, Takeshi Kovacs becomes caught up in political intrigue when he comes to the aid of a woman being hunted by a savage young Envoy who claims that he is Kovacs himself.

Woken Furies

High Fidelity

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves

“No, I’m calling you a gutless betrayer of your sex. I can see your husband’s angle, he’s a man, he’s got everything to gain from this crabshit. But you? You’ve thrown away centuries of political struggle and scientific advance so you can sit in the dark and mutter your superstitions of unworth to yourself. You’ll let your life, the most precious thing you have, be stolen from you hour by hour and day by day as long as you can eke out the existence your males will let you have. And then, when you finally die, and I hope it’s soon, sister, I really do, then at the last you’ll spite your own potential and shirk the final power we’ve won for ourselves to come back and try again. You’ll do all of this because of your fucking faith, and if that child in your belly is female, then you’ll condemn her to the same fucking thing.”

“We must be prepared to live on time scales of life our ancestors could only dream of, if we are to realize our own dreams.”

-“That why you won’t do the clone thing, huh? Wear every sleeve for what it’s worth?”

-“Learn every sleeve for what it’s worth,” he corrected me gently.

“But you’re not planning to stop with them?” I shook my head. “I’m not planning to stop at all, Virginia. They can’t give her back to me, can they? So why would I stop?”

Suddenly I needed to know. “Do you think this is a ghost we’re

He made a tiny sound, something between a chuckle and a sigh.

“We are all chasing ghosts, Kovacs-san. Living as long as we now do, how could we not be.”

“Rage at injustice is a forest fire—it jumps all divides, even those between generations.”

“Don’t fucking stand here bitching to me about it, let’s see you do better.”

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