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Altered Carbon

Netflix Altered Carbon book 1

Richard Morgan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:4th Sep '08

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Coming to Netflix in 2017, this must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.

Now a MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, this must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.

MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES FEB 2018

This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.

But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.

For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.

Outstanding. An astonishing first novel * THE TIMES *
An astonishing piece of work. Intriguing and inventive in equal proportions -- Peter F Hamilton

  • Winner of Philip K. Dick Award 2004 (UK)

ISBN: 9780575081246

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 34mm

Weight: 330g

480 pages