Altered Carbon: An Interview with Author Richard Morgan

In this episode of the Two for Tea podcast, our editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to novelist Richard K. Morgan about his classic novel Altered Carbon, which raises philosophical questions about the nature of life, death and immortality and our relationships with our own bodies, all within the framework of a meticulously plotted, highly entertaining extraterrestrial whodunnit.

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Richard K. Morgan

Richard K. Morgan is the author of Thin Air, The Dark Defiles, The Cold Commands, The Steel Returns, Black Man (published as Thirteen in the US), Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels and Altered Carbon. Altered Carbon was a New York Times Notable Book, won the Philip K. Dick award in 2003 and has been made into a 10-episode Netflix series, produced by Skydance Media and Laeta Kalogridis.

Iona Italia

Iona Italia is Areo Magazine's editor-in-chief and the host of the associated podcast Two for Tea. She is the author of two books: Anxious Employment (a study of eighteenth-century essayists) and Our Tango World (sociological and philosophical musings on dance and life). Her political essays can be found here; she also publishes weekly creative non-fiction pieces on her Substack, The Second Swim.