【人物】2017上海國際文學周嘉賓：理查德·摩根

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理查德·摩根

（Richard Morgan;1965-）

英國科幻小說及幻想小說家（在美國人稱理查德 K.摩根），生于倫敦，長于赫瑟西特鄉下。曾在劍橋大學研讀歷史，畢業后為環游世界成為英語教師。在斯克萊德大學執教14年后出版首部小說，自此走上寫作之路。他的小說營造出一個后反熵主義的假想國。2002年開始創作“科瓦奇”系列小說（Takeshi Kovacs），將偵探和戰爭元素融入科幻小說中，前后共寫就了三部。其中一部獲得菲利普?K?迪克獎（Philip K. Dick Award），第一部《副本》（Altered Carbon）被改編成電影。2007年面世的新作Black Man，完全走出了“科瓦奇”的世界，并榮獲2008年亞瑟?C?克拉克獎（Arthur C. Clarke Award）。

Richard Morgan(known as Richard K. Morgan in the USA) is an English science fiction and fantasy author.Born in London, and brought up in the village of Hethersett, near Norwich, Morgan studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating he started teaching English in order to travel the world. After 14 years and a post at the University of Strathclyde, his first novel was published and he became a full-time writer.Morgan's books are generally set in a post-extropianistdystopian world.In 2002 Morgan's first novel Altered Carbon was published, combining elements of cyberpunk and hardboileddetective fiction and featuring the antiheroTakeshi Kovacs.In 2003 the U.S. edition received the Philip K. Dick Award.In 2003 Broken Angels was published, the sequel to Altered Carbon, again featuring Takeshi Kovacs. Morgan's third, and he has stated final, Kovacs novel Woken Furies was released in the UK in March 2005 and in the U.S. in September 2005.Black Man, released in 2007, is about the constraints of physicality and the fact that you are locked into who you are and there's not a whole lot you can do about that. These are things he could not deal with in the Kovacs universe, because for Kovacs and people like him mortality is avoidable: you just skip into a new body. The novel subsequently won the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award.