Altered Carbon (Gollancz)
by Richard Morgan
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Author: Richard MorganEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-02
ISBN: 0575081120
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Gollancz
Book Reviews of Altered Carbon (Gollancz)
Book Review: Spectacularly good SF
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been reading SF since back in the 50s, and have watched the Old Masters gradually die off, with me losing more interest in the genre with each passing year. This book has re-kindled my early enthusiasm, and makes up for the dreary stuff I've fought through. The cortical stack conceit is novel and astonishing, and the character is superb. Read it!
Summary of Altered Carbon (Gollancz)
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats "existence" as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .
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