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UPC:090451204027
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SKU:GB_ALTERED_SPACE
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Raymond Chandler and William Gibson. He’s going to need another trope. Can’t live forever on one trick, no matter how clever. Altered Carbon is, so far, the best of his work.Sex, money and death. May not be for kids.
Altered Carbon can best be described as a Sci-Fi Noir. Author Richard K. Morgan’s debut novel give us a classic Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler mystery, but told in a very Philip K Dick setting. There’s a murder mystery, a femme fatale, and a real hard boiled investigator. The thing is, though, the investigator has been stuffed into someone else’s body without his consent and the victim, well, he’s still alive in a new cloned body.The book really takes off running and keeps the pages turning for the first half. We’re quickly thrown into the twenty-fifth century where Earth is a fairly boring novelty, sex, drugs, and violence appear to be the only forms of entertainment, and permanent death is only for the poor, unlucky, or Catholic. Unfortunately, the plot seems to meander a bit at the mid-point and I quickly found myself losing interested. From there until the ultimate climax, I really found myself struggling to care what happens next to anyone.If there’s one thing I know for certain after reading this, it’s that Morgan can write some of the best, most vivid action sequences I’ve ever read. The guy crafts some seriously intense sequences worthy of a John Woo movie. You can almost feel time dilate as the energy and adrenaline kick in. For that reason, I have to blame the problems I had with the pacing or plot can only be attributed to Morgan’s inexperience at this point in his career. Without a doubt I’ll be checking out much more of his work.
interesting story, interesting premise, very well written. i like the way all the various threads were tied up so neatly at the end, especially as i didn’t expect some of the surprises the author had in store for us.
The movie was excellent and the book was also excellent. The detail in the book surpasses the movie which was enjoyable. The visuals of the movie enhanced the details in the book. Basically a win-win.
Morgan combines hard sci-fi with a hard-boiled detective story in this amazing action triller. His central sci-fi idea is that in the twenty-fifth century, technology exists that can transfer a person’s consciousness into an artificial cortical stack implanted in the brain. Essentially, this means that it is much more difficult to die a final death as people can “sleeve” themselves into new bodies as needed. This is the situation with protagonist Takeshi Kovacs, who finds himself re-sleeved into a disgraced detective agent’s body and is forced to solve a complex and intriguing mystery.Great storytelling and interesting characters make this novel worthy is it’s Philip K. Dick nomination and well worth reading…
Roughly 500 years in the future, death becomes avoidable. Initially used as a method for deep space travel, a person’s consciousness can be digitally stored for an indefinite amount of time and then downloaded into a “cortical stack” of an unoccupied human body or “sleeve.” However, the procedure does require financial means, and even then only the very rich can get their original body back. This scientific breakthrough, along with space travel, true A.I., virtual reality, biological enhancement, cloning, and other technological advances, haven’t served to better mankind as much as further complicated it. Class separation is even more extreme, now that the prosperous have several lifetimes to increase their power. Religious factions oppose man-made immortality. Meanwhile, generations are born and re-sleeved on distant planets while Earth is slowly becoming a relic.To help maintain control of colonies at the farthest reaches of the galaxy, the UN Protectorate created shock troops called the Envoys, which deploy by instantaneous galactic digital transfer into waiting cortical stacks of bio-enhanced sleeves. The Envoys are elite combat soldiers and counter-intelligence operatives feared throughout the known universe, and Takeshi Kovacs used to be one of them.A wealthy businessman, Laurens Bancroft, was recently murdered and had to be re-sleeved. With the police claiming his death was suicide, Bancroft needs the best to find his killer. Kovacs is the best, so Bancroft arranges to.
Brilliant novel dripping with detail and great science fiction. The story is tightly told and blends styles wonderfully. Some may find it a bit chauvinistic and they may not be wrong but such aspects did little to detract from the overall experience. It succeeds at world building giving us something us familiar, San Francisco detective story, and exotic, a distant future where alien tech has remade mankind highlighting the growing pains of mixing advanced tech with our primitive sense of self. Just a great read. Looking forward to book 2 in the series.
I loved this series, and this book starts the series.I’m a big fan of sci-fi in general. I had been watching Castle, and also just ran through the Jesse Stone movies.I asked a good friend what he thought would be a good detective noir novel would be, and he told me to read the same book he’d been trying to get me to read for months – Altered Carbon.It is a good thing the sequels were available on Kindle – I ordered the next 2 at the end of the day, and read them by the end of the week.
Very trippy story. I’ve read most of the book but haven’t finished it. I can say that it takes a lot of concentration and it is an interesting story overall. I’m just hoping the future that this book describes won’t come in my lifetime because that would suck!
I haven’t read much science fiction, so picked this book because it won some awards & had been well reviewed. The 25th century setting was really interesting, & I found it provocative & timely that the plots explores all the the positive & negative effects of a future totally dominated by technology. Despite the futuristic setting, the book is fundamentally a mystery with lots & lots of plot twists & a very complex main character.