Altered Carbon - R. Morgan
Random House Publishing 2003 Random House Worlds 390 anglické Richard Morgan Paperback
SOON TO BE A BRAND-NEW SERIES ON NETFLIX 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 bra...
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. . . .