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The third book, ''Woken Furies'', finds Kovacs back on his homeworld of Harlan's World; a largely aquatic planet colonised by Japanese and Slavs. The book begins as a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] as Kovacs hunts down members of a Church who sentenced a friend of his to death, but he soon becomes involved in a growing revolutionary plot to overthrow the UN-backed government.
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* [[Action Bomb]]: People can be fitted with internal explosives, allowing them to explode at will (Though there is a significant risk of accidental detonation). There are also examples where the explosives are [[Dead
* [[Action Survivor]]: Tanya Wardani of ''Broken Angels''.
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Thoroughly averted. Without exception, in all three books, the artificial intelligences we encounter are friendly, cooperative and unobstrusive.
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** Also subverted: people who die with their cortical chip intact feel some pain (or a lot of pain, as the case may be), but during the transition period - when the chip is not actively connected to a living body - they're essentially frozen unconscious.
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Martians are said to have visited Earth centuries ago, but only spoke to the Whales.
* [[Anti
* [[Badass]]: Kovacs, Trepp, Kadmin, [[Colonel Badass|Isaac]] [[Semper Fi|Carrera]], Virginia Vidaura and of course {{spoiler|Quellcrist Falconer}}.
* [[Badass Army]]: The Envoys
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** The Rawling virus corrupts digital information - it is shown to brutally annihilate an AI, and it can be used as a way of killing people equipped with stacks (which is only virtually EVERYBODY) through self-destructive insanity.
* [[Final Death]]: "Real Death" or RD, when your stack is destroyed, erased or irreparably damaged. Less of a fear for those who have a [[Body Backup Drive]] somewhere, but these too can be destroyed with enough effort.
* [[Full
* [[Gender Bender]]: There is no rule preventing people from downloading their consciousness into bodies of the other sex. People commonly swap sexes in virtual, and it's heavily implied that those who can afford it have fun with this in real life. It's also used once for torture purposes; you can probably imagine how - and if you can't, you don't want to know.
** In the first book Kovacs impersonates a woman by claiming to have been sleeved in a male body.
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* [[Magnetic Weapons]]: Examples are mentioned, such as the Philips Thin Gun in 'Altered Carbon'.
* [[Master of Your Domain]]: One of the skills that every Envoy possesses.
* [[
* [[Mildly Military]]: The De-Com crews have a somewhat ... loose command structure. Proven troops have a great deal of operational latitude.
* [[Military Science Fiction]]: ''Broken Angels'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Woken Furies''.
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* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Kovacs' fight with Kadmin. While Kovacs' is sleeved in the body of a middle-aged chain-smoking cop, Kadmin has an enormously [[Lightning Bruiser|strong and fast]] Hand of God 'freak fighter' sleeve. Kovacs still loses but gives an excellent accounting of himself.
** Also describes Kovacs in ''Broken Angels'' as his sleeve, which wasn't in particularly good shape at the start of the book, {{spoiler|is slowly dying of radiation poisoning. Because of this, Kovacs becomes up effectively immobile if not for the [[Powered Armor|hospital mob suits]] and drugs, and yet he manages to wipe out [[Colonel Badass|Carrera]] and his army.}}
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: Weaponized semisentient nanomachine colony that can basically fight everything that's thrown at it and adapt to what it can't fight. The inventors are actually ''surprised'' that it goes haywire.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Kovacs' employers and associates, typically no shrinking violets themselves, often express shock or astonishment at the number of people Kovacs kills or maims in each novel.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Examined. Everyone gets fitted with a cortical stack at birth and they're pretty difficult to destroy, so barring severe misfortune or deliberate attack there's the opportunity to live more or less indefinitely. Most people don't, though, either because they can't afford to get a new sleeve, don't want to go through the aging process more than two or three times, or just get bored of life. People that choose to keep going year after year are widely considered to have a screw loose, although since they are wealthy as a rule and have had lifetimes to accumulate power and influence they tend not to care what the little folks think about them.
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