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Rent Altered Carbon
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: Mar 2003
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - High Tech
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 384
Synopsis
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. . . .
Reviews
This deserves to be placed among the very best SciFi novels. In the cynical, gritty vein of William Gibson, Richard Morgan adds his own unique vision of a technologically advanced future where everything has changed except for the human capacity for cruelty and selfishness. This is an exciting, suspenseful story which, although dark, will hold your attention from start to finish. Also, after hearing Todd McLaren read a Morgan novel, you'll wonder why McLaren wasn't asked to read all of Morgan's stories.
This deserves to be placed among the very best SciFi novels. In the cynical, gritty vein of William Gibson, Richard Morgan adds his own unique vision of a technologically advanced future where everything has changed except for the human capacity for cruelty and selfishness. This is an exciting, suspenseful story which, although dark, will hold your attention from start to finish. Also, after hearing Todd McLaren read a Morgan novel, you'll wonder why McLaren wasn't asked to read all of Morgan's stories.