Altered Carbon

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Altered Carbon
Title Altered Carbon Publication Year 2002 Debut Novel Yes
Series Takeshi Kovacs series Series Number 1 Next Broken Angels Takeshi Kovacs: Altered Carbon → Broken Angels → Woken Furies
Author Richard K. Morgan
Genre Science Fiction
Story Survey Starting Genre Science Fiction Starting Perspective 1st Starting Tense past tense Starting Action Level 2 (out of 5) Starting Hook Level 3.5 (out of 5) Starting Tension Level 3 (out of 5) Starting Genre Level 2 (out of 5) Reviewer Fritz Reviewer read? Yes
Story Text First Paragraphs Two hours before dawn I sat in the peeling kitchen and smoked one of Sarah's cigarettes, listening to the maelstrom and waiting. Millsport had long since put itself to bed, but out in the Reach currents were still snagging on the shoals, and the sound came ashore to prowl the empty streets. There was a fine mist drifting in from the whirlpool, falling on the city like sheets of muslin and fogging the kitchen windows. Chemically alert, I inventoried the hardware on the scarred wooden table for the fiftieth time that night. Sarah's Heckler and Koch shard pistol glinted dully at me in the low light, the butt gaping open for its clip. It was an assassin's weapon, compact and utterly silent. The magazines lay next to it. She had wrapped insulating tape around each one to distinguish the ammunition: green for sleep, black for the spider-venom load. Most of the clips were black-wrapped. Sarah had used up a lot of green on the security guards at Gemini Biosys last night.
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Altered Carbon

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), 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. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author:	Richard K. Morgan
Published:	2002
Genre:	Science Fiction
Tags:	Publication, Book, Novel, Debut Novel, First Person, Takeshi Kovacs Series, Series Starting Point, Cool Title, Read, Reread, Reread as Audiobook, Pick, Novel Pick, SF Pick, Takeshi Kovacs (series), First Person, Action-Adventure, Clone, Cyberpunk, Hardboiled, Mental Clone, Noir, Virtual Reality
First Line:	Two hours before dawn I sat in the peeling kitchen and smoked one of Sarah's cigarettes, listening to the maelstrom and waiting.
Read:	2013, 2000s
Viewpoint:	First Person
Series:	Takeshi Kovacs
Next:	Broken Angels (2003) by Richard K. Morgan Takeshi Kovacs #2 search amazon
Sequence:	Takeshi Kovacs: Altered Carbon → Broken Angels → Woken Furies
Library:	Titles A (Library Box Cross Ref)
Box:	A78, E2
ISFDB:	title entry, cover gallery
Amazon:	Kindle, Paperback, Audio
Film Versions:	Altered Carbon (TV series)

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