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| Original Title: | Altered Carbon ASIN B000FBFMZ2 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Takeshi Kovacs #1 |
| Characters: | Takeshi Kovacs, Laurens Bancroft, Miriam Bancroft, Oumou Prescott, Lt. Kristen Ortega, Reileen Kawahara, Trepp, Curtis, Elias Ryker, Bautista, Irene Elliot |
| Setting: | San Francisco, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2003), Philip K. Dick Award (2004), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Long Form (2006) |
Richard K. Morgan
Kindle Edition | Pages: 544 pages Rating: 4.05 | 81475 Users | 5502 Reviews
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| Title | : | Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs #1) |
| Author | : | Richard K. Morgan |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 544 pages |
| Published | : | 2018 by Del Rey (first published February 28th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk. Mystery |
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Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn't be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.
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Ratings: 4.05 From 81475 Users | 5502 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs #1)
Altered Carbon: Richard Morgan's Cyber-Punk Future The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice. Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon It takes something special for a book to keep me burning through the pages until 3 a.m. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan is a helluva read. Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel, 2003Morgan is a wicked blend of Philip K. Dick and William Gibson. There is even a touch of Gene"I walked beside the woman I had killed last week and tried to hold up my end of a conversation about cats."A solid neo-noir cyberpunk detective story that plays out in a fascinating science fiction universe. If youre a fan of the genre, you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. It's pitch-black dark, brutally ultra-violent and fun as hell. I particularly loved the concept of sleeving and the method by which characters undergo interstellar travel. This is a cold, difficult reality in which
Takeshi Kovacs is killed on an another world and re-sleeved in Bay City in the body of a disgraced cop. His mission: find out who killed Laurens Bancroft, a Meth (short for Methusaleh) billionaire. Bancroft and is offering Kovacs his freedom as a reward. Only a lot of people don't want anyone to know why Bancroft killed himself. Can Kovacs get to the bottom of things before the demons in Bancroft's private life get him?I bought this for a buck and it languished on my shelf for a couple years.
I abandoned it after about 100 or so pages. I liked the future setting and the advances in technology that change the concept of life and death. Unfortunately, it read like a script for an action movie. Some good ideas, but too much senseless action and violence ruined it for me.
Re-read 2/27/18:I had to pick this up again and hop on to the second and third books mostly because I was guilted into it by the Netflix production. :) I really enjoyed the show and found myself misremembering some plot points.It turns out I didn't misremember. The tv show was close to 90% faithful. :) The other bits might be reveals pulled forward from the subsequent books which I haven't read! I honestly don't know. And that's why I'm doing the re-read. :)So did I enjoy it more the second time
It took me a while to read this one because I needed to put it down occasionally and read something light during a break. It's dark, bloody, and very deep.This is a mystery novel set in a very high-tech future where humans are basically downloaded into a hard-copy file, called a stack, from the time they are a year old so that their bodies become "sleeves" that are hosting human consciousness. So, if someone's body is killed, their stack can be put inside another body, or the stack can be
Trish wrote: "I'm already dreading not having Poe (the way I know him) in the books."Yeah, there are a few differences aside from the hotel, and the
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