Behind me was a tranquil rural childhood and the upward arc of comfortable academic overachievement at schools my parents crucified themselves to put me through. Beautiful sunsets spilled across vast skies and endless fields, but there was not a lot of what you’d call dramatic scenery. The county of Norfolk extended pancake-like in all directions around me.

I was born in 1965 (without a caul, as it happens) but let’s fast-forward a bit, eh?Įarly teen recollections put me in a dormitory village called Hethersett, about six miles outside the city of Norwich on the A11, the main road to London. Well, that certainly explained the length of the bloody thing, but let’s face it, it’s not a start guaranteed to hook you. I think my heart has rarely sunk so much as it did in my sixth form English class when we opened David Copperfield at page one and I saw the chapter heading I am born. Meantime, here’s a photo of him sitting above the highest navigable lake in the world and grinning like an idiot.Īnd for those whose curiosity is not yet slaked, here’s a little bit of Pre-History : A bit odd, that, but he’s dealing with it. He now lives back in Norfolk in the UK with his Spanish wife Virginia and son Daniel, about five miles away from where he grew up.

Richard is a fluent Spanish speaker and has lived and worked in Madrid, Istanbul, Ankara, London and Glasgow, as well as travelling extensively in the Americas, Africa and Australia. Richard’s latest novel, Thin Air, a return to hardboiled SF, was published in October 2018. Clarke Award in 2007, The Steel Remains won the Gaylactic Spectrum award in 2010, and its sequel, The Cold Commands, was listed in both Kirkus Reviews‘ and NPR’s best Science Fiction / Fantasy books of the Year. Market Forces, was also optioned to Warner Bros, before it was even published, and it won the John W.

It is now a 10 episode Netflix series produced by Skydance Media and Laeta Kalogridis, and has spawned a second series based upon its sequels, Broken Angels and Woken Furies. The movie rights to Altered Carbon were optioned by Joel Silver and Warner Bros on publication, and the book remained in feature film development until 2015. ), Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book that won the Philip K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of Thin Air, The Dark Defiles, The Cold Commands, The Steel Remains, Black Man (published as Thirteen in the U.S.

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