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Altered Carbon (Paperback)

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Paperback: 404 pages
Publisher: McArthur & Company / Not Applicable (Mar 14 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0575073225
ISBN-13: 978-0575073227

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #490,198 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Richard Morgan's debut SF thriller Altered Carbon isn't for the faint-hearted. Its noir private-eye investigation races through extreme violence, hideously imaginative torture and many high-tech firefights.

In 2411, death is not forever. Afterward, they can read your personality from an implanted "cortical stack" and upload you into a new body--at a price. Hero Kovacs has worn many bodies on different worlds as a former member of the UN Envoy Corps, programmed killers to a man. Now the incredibly rich Bancroft brings him to Earth to investigate a killing... of Bancroft himself, restored from his digital backup and rejecting the police theory of suicide.

Half the vice-lords of 25th-century San Francisco are soon chasing Kovacs with futuristic surveillance, drugs and weaponry. Virtual-reality interrogation means they can torture you to death, and then start again. There's a bleak slave trade in rented or confiscated bodies--and Kovacs finds his current borrowed face is all too well known to both police and underworld.

Ultraviolent set-pieces follow, sprinkled with philosophical asides such as this reflection on a stungun: "It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped around me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death."

There are some James-Bondian implausibilities, such as Kovacs's final confrontation with the villain he's sworn to kill: rather than shooting and leaving fast, he discusses the plot for 10 pages until... but that would be telling. This is high-tension SF action, hard to put down--though squeamish readers may shut their eyes rather frequently. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This fast-paced, densely textured, impressive first novel is an intriguing hybrid of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Norman Spinrad's Deus X. In the 25th century, it's difficult to die a final death. Humans are issued a cortical stack, implanted into their bodies, into which consciousness is "digitized" and from which-unless the stack is hopelessly damaged-their consciousness can be downloaded ("resleeved") with its memory intact, into a new body. While the Vatican is trying to make resleeving (at least of Catholics) illegal, centuries-old aristocrat Laurens Bancroft brings Takeshi Kovacs (an Envoy, a specially trained soldier used to being resleeved and trained to soak up clues from new environments) to Earth, where Kovacs is resleeved into a cop's body to investigate Bancroft's first mysterious, stack-damaging death. To solve the case, Kovacs must destroy his former Envoy enemies; outwit Bancroft's seductive, wily wife; dabble in United Nations politics; trust an AI that projects itself in the form of Jimi Hendrix; and deal with his growing physical and emotional attachment to Kristin Ortega, the police lieutenant who used to love the body he's been given. Kovacs rockets from the seediest hellholes on Earth, through virtual reality torture, into several gory firefights, and on to some exotic sexual escapades. Morgan's 25th-century Earth is convincing, while the questions he poses about how much Self is tied to body chemistry and how the rich believe themselves above the law are especially timely.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Dec 26 2008

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This review is from: Altered Carbon Mm (Paperback)

This book is one of the finest I have read in years. It takes elements from sci-fi and a hard boiled detective novel and weaves them together to create a seamless and believable world. An excellent book in all aspects.

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5.0 out of 5 stars E X C E L E N T !!!, Sep 6 2007

By	NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

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Ever since reading William Gibson's SPRAWL TRILOGY (NEUROMACER, COUNT ZERO & MONALISA OVERDRIVE) had I to come across such powerful yet poetic prose. The myriad of voices echoing from a future dystopia...

Just EXCELLENT!

Recommended to everyone - especially William Gibson's fans (trying to make do with his latest, well, dyspeptic novels...)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence, Nov 10 2006

By	lzim "LZIM" (Montreal PQ Canada) - See all my reviews

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I read through this novel faster than any I've ever owned. What makes it easy is the overabundance of action and humour.

The reason I finally decided to buy this book was that I'd quoted the sleeving and needlecasting process and wanted a clearer idea of what Morgan actually meant by those terms, in Sci-Fi they are not uncommon but his working implementation of the principles of colony Sci-Fi, though familiar are highly pecimistic.

As a source of inspiration it was disappointing, but for entertainment value it is unparalleled.

I'm recommend Chris Moriarty to anyone who reads Altered Carbon because the styles are near mirror images of each other. As well as the Kevin Anderson Saga of the Seven Stars simply because there are so many of those books that any fan of the genre should find something satisfying within.

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