Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) Review
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I can't really say anything about this book that hasn't already been said. Several of these reviews outline the plot and Morgan's unique ideas with much more detail and class than I'm willing to invest. Basically, I'm just writing this review to push you over the edge and make you click the ORDER button.
If you think smart*** John McClain of the DIE HARD movies would make for an ideal private detective in some distant future, READ THIS BOOK. If you like your sci-fi gritty and raw, READ THIS BOOK. If you've ever thought it would be cool to download your entire psyche into a different body (or bodies, as the case may be), READ THIS BOOK. If you like the idea of a classic "who done it" turned on its ear, READ THIS BOOK.
By far the best of the Kovacs series, this book is a fairly dark, completely disrespectful, and (frequently) thought-provoking read.
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Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) Overview
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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