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  Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
In his first novel, Altered Carbon, British author Richard K. Morgan introduced us to Takeshi Kovacs, a former "Envoy", one of an elite corps of shock troops, highly trained and technologically enhanced, whose job is to maintain peace among the various planets of the Protectorate.
In Broken Angels, we see Kovacs in his element, with all the weapons, technology and death he could ask for.
Broken Angels is an excellent sophomore effort; not as fresh or compelling as Altered Carbon (which sets a very high standard), but still a ripping good read.
www.scifidimensions.com /May03/brokenangels.htm   (451 words)

  
 Broken Angels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As Broken Angels opens, Takeshi Kovacs is a lieutenant in humankind's most feared mercenary company, but rumors of an astonishing archaelogical discovery inspire his desertion.
Review: BROKEN ANGELS (2003) is a story about a mercenary soldier who is involved in a planetary revolution on a fairly newly-colonized planet, who gets involved with a scheme to claim ownership of an advanced alien artifact with potentially huge military significance.
While the level of voilence in BROKEN ANGELS is similar to what I encountered in another of the author's stories (MARKET FORCES), I found that the voilence was more urbane to the story, and not just thrown in because it was "time for more voilence".
www.jules-verne.co.uk /science-fiction-books/0345457714/Broken-Angels.html   (820 words)

  
 Angels In Broken Bodies, Broken Angels, Broken Indigos, Autism, Indigo Kids
Broken Indigos don't usually come in pretty "wrappings" and their special talents are obscured.
There are Broken Indigos who come with special gifts of superior intelligence and/or athletic abilities; some may have higher psychic, intuitive, healing, telepathic or manifesting skills; others may have an unusual knack for art, music, writing, singing, dancing or other creative expression.
Broken Indigos - the angels in broken bodies - may represent an unprecedented crisis; nevertheless, the positive growth and change initiated by their presence is helping to shape a much healthier and happier world to come.
www.whispy.com /newsletter/archives/angels_in_broken_bodies.htm   (2243 words)

  
 Review of Broken Angels by Richard Morgan
Set 30 years after Altered Carbon, Broken Angels follows the mercenary Takeshi Kovacs as he takes advantage of the cover of a corporate-run war to try to capture the most significant alien artifact ever uncovered.
In the Broken Angels future, humanity has made it to the stars, given a kick start by some information found in artifacts left by a much older race on Mars.
Broken Angels starts with him in a combat engineered body working in a war he wants to get out of, when he hears about a hidden alien artifact which can lead him to an alien ship large enough to set him up to get out of the war with a healthy pay-packet.
www.sfbookshelf.com /review/morgan-richard-broken-angels.php   (423 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Broken Angels
Broken Angels (2003) is a military science fiction novel by Richard Morgan.
Whilst having his latest temporary body repaired after a disasterous land campaign, Kovacs is approached by pilot Jan Schneider, who is looking for protection (and gets a partner) for an expedition to exploit an Alien artifact discovered just before the war broke out.
Like the first novel, Broken Angels combines a twisting, gritty, film noir plot with convincing technology, extreme ultra-violence and convincing characters and motivations.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/b/r/Broken_Angels.html   (295 words)

  
 Richard Morgan: Broken Angels - an infinity plus review
Let me put it this way: Broken Angels is at its most laidback right at the beginning when Kovacs, very severely injured and chemically poisoned, is dumped onto the ice-cold floor of a hospital ship in Sanction IV orbit along with most of his badly wounded colleagues.
Altered Carbon was a focused invective against the dehumanising effects of technology and the money required to afford its benefits; Broken Angels reaches further outside the personal and into the social dimensions of Morgan's 26th century, albeit mainly by widening the focus upon exactly the same problems as Altered Carbon.
Broken Angels is another superb book by Morgan, it grips like a vise and squeezes so much cynicism, rage and action into just 394 pages.
www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/brokenangels.htm   (635 words)

  
 Broken Angels (Unabridged) Audio Book
Broken Angels (Unabridged) was authored by Richard K. Morgan and is narrated by N/A.
Broken Angels (Unabridged) is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
Get Broken Angels (Unabridged) audio book today and start improving your life by gaining knowledge and realize the joy that comes from treating yourself with the respect you deserve.
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 Healing Broken Angels | We are not victims....we are survivors
Broken Angels is password protect for the safety of survivors and contains information on different mental health issues, including anxiety and schizophenia.
Healing Angels - Is a support forum for survivors of sexual abuse and rape.
Broken Angels - Is twin sisters with Healing Angels.
www.freewebs.com /healingbrokenangels   (328 words)

  
 Broken Angels Recovering
Broken Angels is a safe and secure site for anyone who has suffered at the hands of others.
Angels Recovering is a mental health site for anyone suffering with depression, self harmers and abuse survivors.
Broken Angels is a safe and secure site for anyone who as suffered at the hands of others.
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 Angels With Broken Wings - Alice Shiels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Then, while all the people within the realm of the reality that we know find solace in the warmth of their homes, protected from the cold, the angel remains outside whipped and beaten by the storm.
Everyone feels sorry for her until the rain stops, and they realize her beautiful wet wings glisten even more in the sunlight after they have survived the abuses of nature...
Their empathy turns to jealousy, and the wrath of their fiery eyes is too much for our poor wet angel to withstand...
www.generationterrorists.com /contributions/angels_with_broken_wings.shtml   (113 words)

  
 SCIENCE FICTION - New York Times
In BROKEN ANGELS (Del Rey/Ballantine, paper, $14.95), Kovacs returns as a soldier of fortune, fighting for pay on a distant planet where it takes more than a program to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
But as with ''Altered Carbon,'' what distinguishes Morgan's second novel is his persuasive reimagining of the familiar as filtered through the character of Kovacs, a disillusioned superman who carries his own kryptonite around with him.
''Broken Angels'' is a novel of pain and guilt.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07EFD9133CF934A35750C0A9629C8B63   (786 words)

  
 Richard Morgan Broken Angels Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
'Broken Angels' takes place in the universe of 'Altered Carbon', a 26th century where the human soul can be easily stored in a standard digital format and easily 're-sleeved' into new bodies.
Morgan covers all the bases in 'Broken Angels', from religious relevance to alien inscrutability.
In 'Broken Angels' Morgan serves it all up with a fist to the face and a subtle twist to the neck.
trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/morgan-broken_angels.htm   (951 words)

  
 The Quern » Blog Archive » Book Review: Broken Angels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Broken Angels is the second Takeshi Kovacs novel, a sequel to Altered Carbon connected only by the fact that the main character is the same.
Altered Carbon was a detective story with a touch of adventure, similar to Blade Runner or the old-style hardboiled private-eye novels and films; Broken Angels is more of an adventure story with a touch of detective work, more similar to the Indiana Jones movies, if Indiana Jones was a psychologically-, neurochemically- and technologically-augmented supersoldier-turned-mercenary.
On the human side, Broken Angels deals in themes of loyalty and trust, and how betrayal of trust and loyalty are repaid.
www.wigdahl.net /blog/2005/08/15/book-review-broken-angels   (884 words)

  
 Neil Young Sleeps With Angels Review - Broken Arrow
And now it seems that _Sleeps With Angels_ is the 20 year sequel to _Tonight's The Night_, much as _Harvest Moon_ was the sequel to 1972's _Harvest_.
Sleeps With Angels has the epic length "Change Your Mind" (lyrics analysis) anchoring its center while Tonight's The Night's linchpin are the 4 tracks "Roll Another Number", "Albuquerque", "Lookout Joe", and "Tired Eyes".
It should be noted that the most optimistic song on Tonight's The Night - "New Mama" written for Carrie Snodgress who had just given birth to their son Zeke - interrupts the sequence.
www.thrasherswheat.org /tnfy/swa_ba.htm   (1020 words)

  
 TIME LINE of the Altered Carbon Universe
In Broken Angels, the hunt for Martian technology comes to the fore as Kovacs finds himself fighting as a mercenary in a war on a planet whose principal source of wealth lies in its archaeological leavings.
By the end of Broken Angels, we know a lot more about the Martians than we did at the end of Altered Carbon, but whether the human race is any better off for that knowledge is another question.
You don’t get the ensemble feel of Broken Angels either, because although there is a strong cast of secondary characters in Woken Furies, they tend to come and go as the story follows Kovacs’ journey (or voyage, really, as Harlan’s World is largely oceanic).
www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/misc/alteredcarbon.htm   (2488 words)

  
 Angels With Broken Wings by Spooky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angels with broken wings, when was it that you forgot how to sing?
Broken wings now hanging limp at your feet, you can't see through the fog that has you blinded.
Angels with broken wings when will you be strong enough to again sing?
caringonline.com /feelings/poetry/spooky/spooky2.htm   (388 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: The Separation / Broken Angels / The Tain
Broken Angels is the first person narrative of Takeshi Kovacs (with the "c" pronounced as a soft Slavic "ch"), who previously appeared in Morgan's widely praised debut Altered Carbon (which Del Rey has just recently released in the U.S.).
While certain, shall we say, less mature readers may find the story the next best thing to a movie in terms of spectacular shoot-outs and special effects, Broken Angels is more in the tradition of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War in satirizing the stupidity of the very genre it mimics.
Morgan vividly and graphically depicts the results of combat, which, after all, is to kill or maim the enemy before they do it to you.
www.sfsite.com /03b/ba148.htm   (2169 words)

  
 » Broken Angels
Comment: Following up a novel as good as Altered Carbon must be tough, and Broken Angels is a worthy effort that avoids too much recycling of the original.
Comment: BROKEN ANGELS (2003) is a story about a mercenary soldier who is involved in a planetary revolution on a fairly newly-colonized planet, who gets involved with a scheme to claim ownership of an advanced alien artifact with potentially huge military significance.
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 SF REVIEWS.NET: Broken Angels / RIchard K. Morgan
RICHARD K. Superior to Altered Carbon (and entirely readable on its own), Broken Angels finally shows Richard K. Morgan cutting the umbilical from the influences he displayed so unabashedly before, and moving the stories of Takeshi Kovacs off into new and more interesting directions.
From a character and themes standpoint, it has many of the same peccadilloes as Carbon; Morgan's future outlook comes across, if not nihilistic, certainly deeply misanthropic, and his thematic messages — people are cruel and warlike; corporations are corrupt; technology is dehumanizing — are simplistic.
Broken Angels moves far, far away from the detective/noir motif of Carbon and emerges as a gritty work of military SF action.
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 purevolume™ | Among Broken Angels
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 BOLTER AND CHAINSWORD > The Broken Angels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Yet a good number of Dark Angels, several high-ranking members of the Inner Circle, see Dominicus as enlightened rather than cursed, but all understand that his radical beliefs completely discredited all that the Dark Angels have done in their quest for redemption.
He is otherwise a devout Dark Angel who hates Fallens with a passion and would indifferrently slaughter women and children in a most organized fashion if it benefitted his chapter.
Enraged from the nagging aggravation, Vincentius’s concentration was broken for a mere second, enough to allow Marcellus’s power sword to cut a chunk from his legging, slicing open the ceramite plates and shredding fiber bundles in one stroke.
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 The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In Broken Angels we have a sequel of sorts and the return of his Envoy anti-hero, Takeshi Kovacs.
It helps to reinforce some of the atmospheric work that Morgan has already done in establishing a milieu in which the realities of 'data-stack' personality backups and extended periods of space travel have had important effects on the way people live their lives.
Broken Angels is wide-screen in one sense, but it still maintains the sense of potential treachery and paranoia of Altered Carbon.
www.thealienonline.net /ao_060.asp?baa=1&tid=2&scid=14&iid=1501   (1855 words)

  
 Random House Publishing Group | Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
The characters in Altered Carbon and Broken Angels face radically different situations and facets of day-to-day existence to those we face today, true.
In Broken Angels, he’s fighting (or a least trying to stay alive in) a planetary war, and there’s a corresponding upgrade in his ferocity.
You don’t get the ensemble feel of Broken Angels either, because although there is a strong cast of secondary characters in Woken Furies, they tend to come and go as the story follows Kovacs’; journey (or voyage, really, as Harlan’s World is largely oceanic).
www.randomhouse.com /rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345457738&view=qa   (4157 words)

  
 purevolume™ | fallen hearts and broken angels
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 Broken Angels
Broken Angels is a safe place for adult rape and abuse survivors to share their experiences, and to recieve support from other survivors.We do this by providing forums and information pages.
Broken Angels is not run by professionals but is run by survivors themselves.
Given this, the emphasis is on self - help, and survivors supporting each other.
www.brokenspirits.com /directory/index.cfm?organization=2471   (82 words)

  
 We are not victims...we are survivors!
Broken Minds of broken angels is a safe and secure ring for anyone who has suffered at the hands of others.
Angels Recovering is a mental health site for male and females.
Most of them are young Angels, but adult angels are welcome.
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 Broken Angels- JournalHome.com
I would be going on the field trip and I was to be moved to another classroom as soon as possible.
But even Angels can only do so much; she was grasping to hold onto the family.
I loved James, his golden blonde hair and brilliant blue eyes were consistent to his gentle quiet way, he always spoke to me so softly and with a deliberate way with every word.
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