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Arthur C Clarke Award short profiles: Richard Morgan
10/03/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
In 2002 Morgan's published his first book Altered Carbon, a cyberpunkish tale with war hero PI Takeshi Kovacs swapping his mind through various clone bodies. The movie rights for Altered Carbon were sold for $1 million big ones to Joel Silver, allowing Morgan to give up his English-teaching day job. Buy Black Man in the USA - or Buy Black Man in the UK  His Clarke award is for his science fiction thriller Black Man (published in the USA as Thirteen). He's currently working on a fantasy series that, according to his blog, fans of quest-style sword and sorcery are going to hate ... but Quentin Tarantino fans will like.
In 'Black Man', the hero is a variant Thirteen - a leftover from a failed genetically enhanced super soldier program - currently freelancing as an assassin, who is hired by the UN to whack out all the other rogue variant Thirteen's.
Think Bladerunner mixed with Marshal Law mixed with Captain America mixed with Morgan's usual pulp noir PI sensibilities.
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