Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
 

Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)

by Richard K. Morgan

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... (read more)

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Daniel Roy
  • Rated 5 stars

What a wonderful little book this turned out to be! Morgan starts off with the 'mind as information' idea that is so liked by modern SF authors, and spins it into a clever and surprising detective novel that hits all the right buttons.

Yeah, the SF concepts are cool, but what's really nice about this novel is the pulp detective novel it contains. In that regard, SF and Noir perfectly complement each other and prevent the novel from ever devolving into something derivative. The SF...

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Gashlycrumb
  • Rated 1 stars

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.

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  • Rated 4.244318 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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  • muque and shylock tomes

    muque and shylock tomes said:

    A funtastically, non-stop romp into the realm of the hardboiled detective of the future! The eerily familiar San Francisco of Kovac's time is the setting for a tale that will challenge the present-day reader with several moral dilemas that we may face before too terribly long...

    posted Sunday, May 18 2008
  • lander

    lander said:

    brilliant first novel. chandler meets gibson. morgan's vision of the future will shock you.

    posted Tuesday, September 25 2007
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