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Altered Carbon
Author: Richard Morgan
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Retail Price: | $22.99 |
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ISBN: 9780575081246
Format: Paperback
Published: November 2008
Published By: Hachette Australia
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Published: November 2008
Published By: Hachette Australia
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An amazingly confident, action-and-violence packed thriller and future classic noir SF novel.An amazingly confident, action-and-violence packed thriller and future classic noir SF novel.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.