Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon

2002 • 544 pages

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Average rating3.9

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It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve"), making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Onetime U.N. Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Resleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), 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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Takeshi Kovacs

Takeshi Kovacs is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by Richard K. Morgan.

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August 28, 2010
April 10, 2014

DNF at 26%.

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