Altered Carbon
2002 • 544 pages

Ratings292

Average rating3.9

15

Gritty cyberpunk noir crime story set in a future where your consciousness can be downloaded to different bodies. The wealthy live forever and wear different bodies as if they are clothes. Your changing body image and a new bodies' chemistry create patchworks of identities. I enjoyed the hard scifi of it, the identity speculations, and would have preferred more of that instead of the focus on the action-laden crime investigation.

October 9, 2016