Woken Furies
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| Author | Richard Morgan |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Takeshi Kovacs |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
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Publication date
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17 March 2005 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) & (Paperback) |
| Pages | 436 pp (Hardback), 575 pp (Paperback) |
| ISBN | (Hardcover), (Paperback) |
| OCLC | 57354392 |
| Preceded by | Broken Angels |
Woken Furies (2005) is the third published science fiction novel by Richard Morgan. It is a sequel to Broken Angels, and features the anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs.
This addition to the series casts light upon Kovacs' early life providing information on his post-envoy activities.
Morgan's official website and interviews suggest that Woken Furies could be the last Kovacs novel.
Takeshi Kovacs finds himself back on his home planet of Harlan's World. Nine-tenths water, Harlan's World is surrounded by "orbitals" that were created by "Martians". The Harlan's World orbitals are programmed to destroy any object of sufficient technological level flying above ~400 meters altitude and do so with high-energy beam weapons known as "Angelfire".
In the Kovacs universe, "Martians" are a long-dead, super-advanced, avian/winged species who disappeared from our galaxy, leaving behind inscrutable artefacts and a few pieces of operating technology. They are referred to as "Martians" by humans because our first discovery of them is on Mars. Their homeworld is unknown, lost in the millennium since they were active in any space humans have discovered. This mystery is compounded by the Martians' peculiar habit of showing all maps with the local settlement at the center of the universe, rather than relative to a fixed homeworld or system. Martian civilisation is covered in more detail in the second Kovacs novel, Broken Angels, which centres around a Martian gateway.
Kovacs is on the run after making numerous attacks against the Knights of the New Revelation, an extremist religious order. He has declared a personal vendetta against the New Revelation with the express intent of killing every member, revenge for the killing of a long lost love and her daughter for violating the strict tenets of the order.
While trying to secure passage after his most recent attack, he saves a woman named Sylvie from a group of religious zealots. In return, she allows him to take refuge with her mercenary "deCom" crew as they head out to decommission sentient military hardware that has run amok on a nearby continent. Sylvie is the "command head" of her crew, co-ordinating their missions using embedded circuitry and software. During one of these missions, Sylvie collapses, and upon recovery her personality appears to have been replaced by that of long-dead revolutionary leader Quellcrist Falconer.
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