Richard (K) Morgan

I know, I know.  It’s been a bit quiet around here lately.  The quiet rasp of e-crickets, the odd tumbleweed blowing across this section of the information superhighway.  No word for over two months.  Almost as if I’ve gone, as if I’m…….not there. And to some extent that’s true.  I’m not there, I’m here: Which, [...]

Okay – the dust has settled a little now, I guess, and as it does, I’m delighted to announce that The Cold Commands made both Kirkus Reviews’ top SFF novels of 2011 and Amazon’s Best Gay and Lesbian Books of the year.  Needless to say, I’m deeply honoured by this latter accolade, and over the moon about Kirkus, [...]

So I thought this was pretty cool. Courtesy of the good people at Gollancz, text by yours truly.  Enjoy.

So it’s official – the 2011 Cold Commands UK tour kicks off the day after publication, with the first gig in my adoptive hometown, here: 14th October 5.30pm – Talk and signing Waterstones 152 – 157 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow swinging over to Edinburgh on Saturday: 15th October 12.30pm – Signing Waterstones (West End) 128 Princes [...]

As promised, here’s the last pre-publication glimpse.  See you in October! Hinerion, the Trelayne poet laureate Skimil Shend once wrote, is less a city in itself than some weak, far flung echo of the capital it strives at every turn to imitate. It is a cultural and architectural cry that lacks conviction, the coarse cant [...]

Should I say that I have seen nine tenths of all the islands I’ll ever see in what remains of my life? Or that one of them I swam to, in the last rays of a sun still above the horizon at nine at night? Should I say that I have sat, naked and sweat-soaked [...]

is the working title.  And I think I’ve found a soundtrack for it already: Just discovered this guy via Glasgow’s very own Sunny Govan Community Radio. Check out his MySpace page here for more music and wild eyed intensity; this is exactly the kind of thing that drew me to early David Gray (and catapulted [...]

This just might be the most elegantly concise deconstruction of contemporary economics that I’ve ever read.  It says it all, it says it in  less than forty words, and it harpoons the One True Faith dogmatists (of more than one stripe) right up the arse. Failure is intrinsic to the market economy: but the legitimacy [...]

Though I am forced to admit it was a collaborative effort, with most of the heavy lifting done by the other author. 3am on June 10th saw the publication of Daniel Morgan Cottinelli, pictured below congratulating his old man on his maiden nappy change. And here he is again, when we told him his old [...]

Habit took his feet south, put him on the Boulevard of the Ineffable Divine.  He didn’t think Archeth would be back from An-Monal yet, but there was always Kefanin to talk to in the meantime.  Ishgrim to leer at, if she chose to put in an appearance.  And anyway, he reminded himself, a little sourly, [...]