
And I didn’t make the characters any more pleasant, so something market based certainly shifted. Campbell award and was optioned for film by Warner Brothers. That story later became “ Market Forces”, which won me the John W. So in part, it may be that the SF scene just wasn’t ready for the full on noirish stuff I was interested in writing – an early story submitted to Interzone was rejected because my characters “could not be sympathized with”.

Part of the reason I took so long to get published is, in all honesty, that I’m very stubborn and only ever wrote what I wanted to, rather than what I thought, through intelligent market analysis, might sell. Richard: Dunno – just the right place at the right time, I guess. Then in a short time, your first novel “ Altered Carbon” got picked up by publisher Gollancz and the rights were sold to producer Joel Silver (the Matrix). Q: According to your bio, you went through a difficult period where you were working a day job and writing on the side, with no luck in the publishing world. book scenes as well as info on a fantasy trilogy and much more: Morgan’s upcoming novel, some interesting insights into dystopias, anti-heroes and the disparities between the UK/U.S. Morgan agreed to answer some questions for me. Morgan – whose bibliography includes “ Altered Carbon” (2002), “ Broken Angels” (2003), “ Market Forces” (2004), “ Woken Furies” (2005) and the forthcoming “ Black Man” / “ Thirteen” (2007) – has established himself as one of today's cutting-edge voices in science fiction, as well as a personal favorite writer.

From the time that his first novel was published, I feel that Richard K.

That book was “ Altered Carbon”, and the author of course, was Richard K. Since it sounded interesting, I decided to check it out, and I’ve never looked at science fiction the same. It was a few years ago, I read about a little sci-fi novel that had been optioned for a movie. "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss.

"Season of the Witch" by Natasha Mostert.Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman sign book deal with Tor.Pre-order autographed copies of Richard K.“This Witch For Hire” omnibus by Kim Harrison.
