9 September 2008
Richard K. Morgan – Altered Carbon
Posted by Dirk under: books .
Some hundreds of years in the future mankind has the ability to save digital copies of people and transfer that copy into a new body. Everybody has a ‘cortical stack’ in their spine that stores their digital copy. If you die and the stack isn’t destroyed (“real death”) and you have the financial resources, you can get a new body.
The star of this book (the first in a series) is Takeshi Kovacs, a former UN Envoy, which are basically super special ops bad ass dudes.
In this book, Kovacs awakens in a new body and finds that he’s been more or less hired to help a very rich old dude find out who killed him.
The book is sort of a noir cyber-punk detective novel. I like all those adjectives and this one is put together pretty good so I liked the book.
If you dig that sort of thing too you should check this one out. I’m already halfway through the second Takeshi Kovacs book 🙂
One Comment so far...
Dorothea Says:
1 October 2008 at 10:01 pm.
Testing….1-2-3.