Series
Parameters
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
More about the book
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. For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.
Book purchase
Altered Carbon, Richard Morgan
- Language
- Released
- 2002
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- Altered Carbon
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Morgan
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN10
- 057507390x
- ISBN13
- 9780575073906
- Series
- Takeshi Kovacs
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Science Fiction, Thriller, Detective Fiction, Noir, Cyberpunk, Hard Sci-Fi, Adapted into Series
- First published
- 2002
- Original title
- Altered Carbon
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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. For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.