Altered Carbon
2002 • 544 pages
Ratings190
Average rating3.9
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Ratings190
Average rating3.9
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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3 primary booksTakeshi Kovacs is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by Richard K. Morgan.
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I loved the belnd of thriller and science fiction. I will look for other books in the series
A fantastic sci fi world that really drew me in with its initial premise. The story diverted quite a bit and it feels like the writer may well have not originally had the plot direction going the way it did when he began. However with interesting characters, continuing surprises and a, as aforementioned, fantastic sci-fi world, it kept me intrigued for the majority of the story.
The central idea of the book is great, that is, in the future we are able to transfer our minds into other bodies (sleeves) and that permanent death is not so common anymore. I enjoyed the world building, a kind of dystopian future where crime is everywhere and there are powerful corrupt people involved in government and security issues. The plot of the book starts well as Kovaks, the anti-hero protagonist is appointed to carry on an investigation about the supposed suicide of a very rich and powerful man. The plot slowly becomes very intricated, and I confess that by the end of the book everything seemed way to complex for me to grasp.
