In the regular My Sci-Fi column in the new SFX (where a public figure is asked about their genre favourites) comics star writer Mark Millar (Ultimates, Spider-Man etc) picked one of my (and the Alien Online’s) favourites, Richard Morgan. He said: “the best contemporary guy is Richard K Morgan. Reading Altered Carbon was how our dads must have felt when they picked up Carrie and discovered Stephen King.” Nice. Makes me even more eager for the new Kovacs novel.