He graduated from either Queens' College, Cambridge where he read History. He so temporarily enter English Language Teaching in order to travel the world. Fourteen years & the post at Strathclyde University later, he finally got his foremost book published. He is presently pursuing the degree inside development economics.

A most common theme of Richard Morgan's books is that it choose place around the dystopia. His attitude is summed higher by his statement that: "Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses." [http://www.saxonbullock.com/richardmorganinterview.htm]

Around 2002 he published his first novel, Altered Carbon. It was the cyberpunk novel that blended hardboiled detective fiction and science fiction and was centered on the anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs. the film rights for the book sold for a reported figure of $1,000,000 to film producer Joel Silver, enabling Morgan to become the fulltime writer. Around 2003 the U.S. edition received the Philip K. Dick Award.

He wrote Broken Angels, a sequel to Altered Carbon, inside 2003. Broken Angels featured Takeshi Kovacs, & blended science fiction & war fiction in a similar way to his cross-genre debut.

Market Forces was the foremost non-Kovacs novel, placed in the non too distant new. It was originally written as the short story, so a screenplay (each unpublished). When a profits of his foremost 2 works, it was freed as a novel & has too been optioned as a film.

Morgan's third Kovacs novel Woken Furies was released inside the UK in March 2005 and will be freed in the U.S. inside September 2005.

Richard Morgan too contributed plot & dialogue to the comic book series Black Widow: Homecoming.

Bibliography
Altered Carbon (2002) ISBN 057507390X Broken Angels (2003) ISBN 0575075503 Market Forces (2004) ISBN 0575075848 Woken Furies (2005) ISBN 057507325X Black Widow: Homecoming (2005) ISBN 0785114939 ''Black Man (2006) ISBN 0575075139