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Altered Carbon

Fiction > Science Fiction and Fantasy

Altered Carbon

Author: Richard Morgan
Series: Takeshi Kovacs Ser.
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February 2018
Description

Coming to Netflix in 2018, this must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.

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.
Awards

Winner of Philip K. Dick Award 2004 (UK).
Author description

Richard Morgan was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. Winner of the Athur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell and Philip K. Dick Awards his books are published around the world. He lives in Norwich with his family.
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General Fields

  • : 9781473223677
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Gollancz
  • : February 2018
  • : 201mm X 132mm X 29mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : February 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 480
  • : 823.92
  • : English
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Richard Morgan