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 Copyright ┬й Richard Morgan 2003
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author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in Great Britain in 2003 by
Gollancz
An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group
Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9EA

A CIP catalogue record for this book is
available from the British Library

ISBN 0 575 07323 3 (cased)
ISBN 0 575 07324 I (trade paperback)

Typeset by Deltatype Limited, Birkenhead, Merseyside

Printed in Great Britain by
Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS




Once again, thanks to my family and friends for putting up with me during the making of
Broken Angels. It can't have been easy. Thanks once again also to my agent Carolyn
Whitaker for her patience, and to Simon Spanton and his crew, notably the very passionate
Nicola Sinclair, for making Altered Carbon fly like a golden eagle on sulphate.

This; is a work of science fiction, but many of the books that influenced it are not. In
particular, I'd like to express my deepest respect for two writers from my non-fiction
inspiration bank; my thanks go to Robin Morgan for The Demon Lover, which is probably the
most coherent, complete and constructive critique of political violence I have ever read, and
to John Pilger for Heroes, Distant Voices and Hidden Agendas, which together provide an
untiring and brutally honest indictment of the inhumanities perpetrated around the globe by
those who claim to be our leaders. These writers did not invent their subject matter as I did,
because they did not need to. They have seen and experienced it for themselves at first hand,