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Altered Carbon

Richard Morgan
ID 326440
Slug altered-carbon
Contributors
Author : Richard K. Morgan
Annotation
Description <p>Now a MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, this must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.</p> <p>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.</p>
Bestseller 60
Genres
Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Orion
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 544
Duration
Publication date first 2008-09-01
Publication date latest 2008-09-30
Cover URL
Editions
  • ISBN: 9780575081246 (BC)

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